Gagarin
Gagarin is a village in the Sevan Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia. It was founded in 1955 and named after the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Administratively, the village is under the subordination of the Sevan municipality.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hro-gagarin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 1,800 residents
- Description: village in Gegharkunik, Armenia
- Also known as: “Gagarin, Armenia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dawn.
Dawn
Work of art
Photo: Сусанна А. Арутюнян, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dawn is a work of art, which is situated 3½ km east of Gagarin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Geghamavan and Varser.
Geghamavan
Village
Photo: Melqon93, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Geghamavan is a village in the Sevan Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia. Geghamavan is situated 3 km northeast of Gagarin.
Varser
Village
Photo: Էրիկ Հակոբյան, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Varser is a village in the Sevan Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia. Varser is situated 4 km east of Gagarin.
Tsaghkunk
Village
Photo: Armenak Margarian, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tsaghkunk is a village in the Sevan Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia. It is situated at the right bank of the Hrazdan River, 40 km northwest from the capital city of the Kotayk Province, Hrazdan, 60 km from Yerevan and 7 km northwest of Sevan, Armenia. Tsaghkunk is situated 4 km north of Gagarin.
Gagarin
- Categories: village in Armenia and locality
- Location: Sevan Municipality, Lake Sevan Region, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.5406° or 40° 32′ 26″ northLongitude
44.86807° or 44° 52′ 5″ eastPopulation
1,800Elevation
1,891 metres (6,204 feet)Open location code
8HG6GVR9+66OpenStreetMap ID
way 548198732OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
616699Wikidata ID
Q5516814
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Uzbek—“Gagarin” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Գագարին”
- Azerbaijani: “Qaqarin”
- Cebuano: “Gagarin”
- Chechen: “Гагарин”
- Chinese: “加加林 （亞美尼亞）”
- Dutch: “Gagarin, Armenia”
- Georgian: “გაგარინი (სომხეთი)”
- Georgian: “გაგარინი”
- Japanese: “ガガーリン”
- Persian: “گاگارین، ارمنستان”
- Polish: “Gagarin”
- Russian: “Гагарин”
- South Azerbaijani: “قاقارین، روسیه”
- Spanish: “Gagarin”
- Swedish: “Gagarin”
- Turkish: “Gagarin”
- Ukrainian: “Гагарін”
- Uzbek: “Gagarin, Armaniston”
- Uzbek: “Gagarin”
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