Kafan Armenia. Detailed map of Kapan - streets, house numbers, districts

"Kapan. Dear old Kapan. At the very entrance to the city you will see for a long time closed airport with a grassy runway. No planes fly here. And the buses don't run anymore either. Passenger cars only. It seems as if the city has fallen asleep. We said goodbye to him fifteen years ago. And that day, the first day of August, he wearily said that he would take a nap. But he didn't just take a nap. He was exhausted. Exhausted by bloody wars, torn by shells that were dropped on him twenty years ago. His strength must have left him and he fell asleep..." ( Excerpt from the story “Stars of Armenia” by Evgeny Arzumanov)

The idea of ​​writing this post was born while visiting the Armenian Aviation, where, in a conversation with Razmik Gasparyan, I learned how in the 80s he himself flew to the far south of Armenia, to Kapan. Well, then, already collecting everything that could be found on the Internet, I managed to meet another pilot, Avag Aleksanyan, who flew the Yak-40 on international flights from 1984 to 1997. And now, thanks to his stories and clarifications, today it is possible to talk a little about flights on the route Yerevan "South" (Erebuni) - Kapan...
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Kapan is the most big city southern Armenia. It is located in the east of the Syunik region in the valley of the Voghji River on the southeastern slopes of the Zangezur ridge between its spurs - the Bargushat and Meghri ridges. To the south of the city is Mount Khustup (3201 m). It is located 316 km from Yerevan and about 1 km from Kashatagh. Translated from Armenian, Kapan means “narrow, impassable gorge,” gorge, pass. In the history of Armenia, Kapan was first mentioned in the 5th century as an ordinary settlement. Ancient Kapan was located 14-15 km northwest of modern city on the right bank of the Voghchi River, was the capital of the Gavar Kapan (Dzork) ...

An Arab author of the 13th century, in his work “Wonders of the World,” speaking about the city of Kapan as a region of the Armenian kingdom of Syunik, noted that it was a remote area in forests and mountains, with many fortresses. At the beginning of the 18th century, the legendary David Bek fought against the Turkish and Persian invaders in these places, whose liberation campaign with a handful of brave men began in 1722 and ended with the liberation of Syunik...
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(photo by Mamikon Poghosyan)

Formed in the 19th century from the merger of several villages, Kapan was and remains a center for the extraction of many non-ferrous metals. Since the 1890s, Armenian entrepreneurs and French mining engineers established a copper mine concession in Kapan. IN Soviet times the city was the center of the mining industry, there was a copper-molybdenum plant and an enrichment plant, which are still in operation today. In addition, the city also has food processing enterprises, lighting and furniture production, knitting factories and hydroelectric power stations...

The highway connecting Iran and Armenia passes through the city. At the end of 2008, in addition to the existing section of the Kapan-Kajaran-Meghri highway, an alternative section of the Kapan-Shikaokh-Meghri highway was also built. The Kapan-Kovsakan-Mijnavan railway line, which is no longer in operation, leaves the city. Until 1990, the city was called Kafan. The population in 2009 was 40,000 people...
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(photo by Angela Vargamyan)

Before the start of the Karabakh war with Kapan, starting in the 70s, a fairly lively air service. The small airport received Yak-40 aircraft, AN-14 cargo planes and Mi-8 helicopters. Flights were operated from several cities in Armenia, but most of from Yerevan of course...
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(photo by RedRipper24)

Yak-40 aircraft were based at Yuzhny airport (Erebuni), and operated international flights (local air lines) almost all year round...
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(photo by RedRipper24)

In addition to flights around Armenia, Yaks flew to Georgia and Krasnodar region. In those years, the intensity of flights really reached its peak...
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(photo by RedRipper24)

Life on the Erebuni platform was in full swing. Flights arrived and departed from Goris, Jermuk, Martuni, Gyumri, Stepanavan, Gavar, Vardenis, Sisian, including from Kapan...
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(photo by RedRipper24)

The flight from Yerevan was approximately 40-45 minutes. It was carried out at an altitude of 4500-5100 meters above sea level. The decline began already in the Goris region...
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The reduction itself was calculated so that in the area of ​​David Bek (a border village in the Syunik region) it would occupy 3000 meters...
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Then, heading towards the control point, we descended to 550 meters, and with a vertical descent speed of 5 m/s already to the end of the Kapan runway...
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It was supposed to be visible when passing the checkpoint at 550 meters. The airfield minimum was 550 meters. The missed approach was carried out in advance and before reaching the end, still from the control tower, with a right turn with a climb...

In 80-81 there was such a case, which one Yak-40 technician spoke about at an aviation forum. One of the Yakovs, piloted by PIC 113 LO Proshkin, was already approaching the end of the Kafan runway. And as soon as the commander opened his mouth to give the command to reverse, a truck suddenly jumped onto the runway... Instead of reversing, the go-around command was immediately given, and although the escape point was left far behind, the crew managed to successfully maneuver and then make a normal landing. The truck was never found...
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Fuel consumption was approximately 700-800 kg for a one-way flight. Flights were carried out at any time of the year, both summer and winter, and not only in clear weather. There were usually 3-4 flights per day. The restrictions were minimum visibility and maximum wind speed...
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Entry from the city side was also allowed, although this option was quite problematic and many commanders officially refused, and the entry from the other side was much more difficult. Plus, the proximity of the border caused additional complexity...
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After boarding and disembarking passengers and cargo, including mail, the return flight was immediately loaded. The takeoff was carried out directly towards the mountain (title frame). After lifting off and retracting the landing gear, an immediate right turn into the gorge was made to climb to 3000 meters and then back along the same route to Yerevan. In addition to Yakov, Mi-8 flights were also carried out from the airfield. The nearest airfield is 62 km away. north of Kapan. With the beginning of the Karabakh conflict, flights to this city were stopped due to shelling of the city from Azerbaijan, and have not been carried out to this day...

Today, the Armenian government is talking about reviving air traffic with Kapan, but so far these conversations have not resulted in any real actions. In any case, the runway and infrastructure of the airfield require significant repairs, and there are no longer flying Yaks in Armenia... On one of my next trips, I will definitely try to get to this city and photograph the airfield in detail, and, at the same time, collect additional information about his past active and interesting aviation life...
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To illustrate the post, I came across these beautiful shots of Yakov in Kapan quite by accident while looking through the registers, or rather, I saw several screenshots with tail numbers from a film shot in 1980 at the Armenfilm studio. The action of the television film “Flight Begins from the Ground” takes place at a provincial airport, where the now famous pilot, who began his journey from here, arrives. Much in this narrow family world is now becoming alien and incomprehensible to him... Starring Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. Those who are interested and have time can watch it online or on Youtube. Well, for those who don’t want to waste time watching two episodes of the film, I made a short cut only with Yakam;)

Well, in conclusion, another photo from the museum of the Karabakh conflict in which Avag Aleksanyan recognized his comrades in arms - aviators. On the left is his very close friend from college - Rafael Gevorgyan (Rafo). In the center is Khachik Sumbatyan, a flight mechanic. On the right is Valera Yazidjyan, now an instructor pilot for Air Arabia, working in the UAE. And after the publication of this post, in Valery’s comment it turned out that this photo was taken on May 9, 1992 at Stepanakert airport, on the day of the liberation of Shushi. During this difficult period for Artsakh, the Yak-40 took on the entire burden of providing the blockaded republic with everything necessary for survival! Let it be here too, because it was these machines that saved many human lives back then!
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(photo from the Aviation Museum of Armenia)

p.s. I would like to express my gratitude to pilot Avag Aleksanyan for his help in writing this post. Today, having changed from the Yak first to the An-26, and then to the An-12, since 2005 he has continued his flying career as an A320 pilot. Clear skies Avag and soft landings!

p.p.s. With the author of the photo RedRipper24, taken in Erebuni in March 1993, I was never able to contact, but in any case I am publishing them here, as well as photos of the city, with mandatory attribution. This time there are no personal photos of me in this post at all))

Located in the extreme south of Armenia, Kapan has been known since ancient times as one of the centers of the province in which this city is located, today called Syunik, but in ancient times it was known under the names Zangezur and Sisakan. There is currently no exact information about the history of the origin of the name of this historical region. Some experts believe that the name has Persian roots, while others are sure that it is associated with the Scythians.

Armenia. Kapan city

The province of Syunik is located in close proximity to the border of Armenia with Azerbaijan and Iran, to which it belonged until the beginning of the nineteenth century, when it was recaptured Russian Empire and came under her control.

As a result of administrative changes by the imperial authorities, the ancient city was significantly rebuilt, residents of surrounding villages were resettled there, and the surrounding area was transformed into a new province.

Thus, Russia strengthened itself in Transcaucasia, and the Armenians local residents although they could not defend their sovereignty, they found themselves in a Christian country, in which they lived on different grounds, without being persecuted, as in the neighboring Ottoman Empire.

Geography and climate of the city

The city of Kapan in Armenia is one of the largest southern cities countries. Considering the significant altitudes at which the city is located, which reach thousands of meters above sea level, the climate of the city can be described as moderate continental, although it is located only eighty kilometers from the Iranian border.

On the territory of the province there is Mount Khutup, whose height reaches 3201 meters. The Vachangai River originates on one of the slopes of the mountain, the length of which does not exceed thirty-five kilometers. It is on the banks of Vachangai that the city of Kapan stands.

Armenia is famous for its mountain landscapes, and the province of Syunik is no exception: gorges, hollows and turbulent mountain rivers attract beauty lovers from all over Europe and from Iran, which traditionally has a great influence on the country’s politics and economy.

Economy and tourism

Unlike neighboring Georgia, Armenia, although enjoying some popularity, still attracts significantly fewer tourists from the European Union. This may be due to Armenia's distance from main transport routes and its isolation by regional countries such as Turkey and Azerbaijan, with which the country does not have an open border.

In addition, significantly fewer international flights arrive at the international one, and there are no international low-cost airlines among Zvartnots’ clients. But it is low-cost carriers that bring the largest number of tourists to neighboring Georgia, including many young travelers.

Any city in Armenia can boast of a large number of monuments ancient history, among which, of course, there will be beautiful churches, because the Armenians were one of the first peoples to accept Christianity at the official level.

Kapan. The city's attractions

Speaking about the modernity of Kapan, it is worth taking into account that the modern city was built a few kilometers from ancient settlement, which appeared here in the 5th century AD. That ancient city was ravaged and burned by the Seljuks in the twelfth century and a few centuries later again revived as a major feudal center of the Orbelian princes, who controlled the entire province of Syunik.

From that ancient city little has survived. First of all, these are the remains of an ancient fortress wall, which survived many sieges, assaults and wars, but was destroyed by time and Russian soldiers. The ruins of several buildings overgrown with forest and bushes have also been preserved, and in the immediate vicinity of the city you can find a bridge built in the 15th century AD.

Syunik Province

Although little has been preserved from ancient times in Kapan itself, many remarkable architectural monuments can be found in the surrounding area, including ancient monasteries, churches and the buildings of ancient seminaries where the great scientists of Armenia taught.

One of ancient monasteries country is Tsitsernavank, which is located on the territory of the historical province of Syunik, but is currently controlled by the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, which is on friendly relations with Armenia. It is worth noting that it is the existence of this republic that is the reason for the isolation of Armenia from Turkey and Azerbaijan.

The monastery was built in the fourth century AD and is an excellent example of the ancient oriental type in Armenian architecture. Today, on the territory of the monastery, only one church, consecrated in honor of St. George the Victorious, and the ancient gate have survived, while the wall itself, which once protected the city from the vain world, has not been preserved. Thus, Kapan in Armenia is an important transport hub for traveling around the Transcaucasus.

City of Kapan (before 1990 - Kafan, 45.7 thousand people) - administrative center Syunik region. Located on the south-eastern slopes of the Zangezur ridge at an altitude of 800 m, in the valley of the Voghcha River, 316 km from Yerevan.

The city extends for 10 kilometers along the Voghji river. Its central part occupies the entire plane of the gorge. On the left bank of the Voghji you can see examples of the so-called landscape development - several multi-storey buildings built on a slope of 40 degrees. At night these houses look like skyscrapers. In the history of Armenia, Kafan was first mentioned in the 5th century. In the 10th century the owner of Syunik, Prince Smbat II, proclaimed himself king in 970, moved his residence here from Vayk and founded the Syunik, or Bakhk, kingdom.

At the beginning of the 18th century. in these places the legendary David Beg fought against the Turkish and Persian invaders. His liberation campaign with a handful of brave men began in 1722, soon thousands of patriots gathered under his banner and liberated Syunik. An equestrian statue of David Beg stands tall in the city center. Actually Kafan, formed in the 19th century. from the merger of several villages, it was and remains a center for the extraction of many non-ferrous metals. The industrial development of the local deposits began in the 1890s. Armenian entrepreneurs and French mining engineers who founded a copper mine concession in Kafan. In Soviet times, Kafan was the center of the mining industry, with a copper-molybdenum plant and a processing plant operating here. They are still working.

The monument to another Armenian hero, Garegin Nzhdeh, is located a few kilometers from the city center, upstream of the Vachagan River. (On the way to it you can see a modern church built from pink tuff.) This is not even a monument, but an entire memorial complex located at the foot of Mount Khustup (3214 m), which reigns above Kapan. Even further upstream of Vachagan is the village of Verin-Vachagan. One of the routes to climb Khustup begins from here.

Kafan, city of copper

The blue waves of the Caspian Sea are left behind. All day you drive through the sultry plain; At night, the noise of the fast waters of the Araks rushing towards the train bursts into the rumble of wheels. Early in the morning, throwing back the window curtain, you see a bright change in the landscape.

Station in a narrow gorge. On the left is the gray-foamy ribbon of the Araks, on the right are yellow-gray rocks. But in the hollow there is fresh greenery, and in the crevices of the rocks there are scarlet poppies, fresh blue bunches of forget-me-nots, thickets of rose hips showered with delicate pink and white flowers. The air is no longer hot, the wind carries the smell of flowers and mountain meadows. You are at the small Azerbaijani station Minjevan. To your left, beyond the Araks, lies - just a stone's throw away - Iranian Azerbaijan. On the right, behind the wall of mountains, is one of the most beautiful parts of Soviet Armenia - Zangezur. This is the homeland of brave Syunik people who never hid from enemies or avoided battle; the homeland of the hardworking and courageous peasantry, which more than once rebelled against their princes, spiritual and secular, the place of activity of one of the largest medieval academies in Armenia - Tatev; This is where the statesman Israel Ori comes from, who realized that only an alliance with the great Russian neighbor would save little Armenia from dependence and destruction; and, finally, now this corner of the unique mountain nature has turned into a major industrial center.

Let's get off at Minjevan, leaving the train for a while. You can already feel the copper here. Here is a railway track with a chain of platforms. The locomotive, puffing, performs a simple maneuver. On the platforms there is an unusual cargo: a scattering of dark, red-brown, heavy and pure land; This is a refined ore, a copper concentrate with a high copper content. It was brought here from the center of Zangezur, the city of Kafan, and will be taken to another copper center of Armenia - Alaverdi, where it will go into the furnaces of a copper smelter. The Minjevan-Kafan railway line, 39 kilometers long, crosses the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia and leads directly to the center of the small but rapidly growing industrial city of Kafan. It stands in a narrow gorge, along the banks of the noisy Voghchi River, into the clear streams of which the small poisonous river Kapan, which receives factory waste, pours its muddy brown drains.

Copper has been known in Zangezur since time immemorial. They started melting it more than a hundred years ago. In 1846, a certain Rozov first received permission from the Russian government to open a copper smelter here. Later, the French took Kafan into concession, first taking Alaverdi into their hands. Old Kafan was rebuilt by French concessionaires in the 10s of our century. Getting here, the French took care of water and light in the houses of the directorate, of shops, cafes, and a pharmacy for employees, but you would try in vain to find here any traces of care for those who mined copper underground and smelted it in water jacket furnaces; workers in Kafan, local and newcomers from neighboring Persia, had no human habitation and did not think about a canteen.

After the revolution, old Kafan began to degenerate. Slowly, slowly, through the features of the old way of life, our native, new, Soviet way of life emerged. And now Kafan is a large workers' center, where everything speaks of the owner-worker. It has its own large hydroelectric station in a nearby gorge, a powerful compressor facility, a mechanical repair shop, multi-storey buildings of a mining town, three secondary schools, a theater, kindergartens, and nurseries. There is greenery in the city. On the tiny plots that still remain free, workers’ individual vegetable gardens are built along steep slopes. But this invasion of young trees and vegetable beds only more clearly emphasizes the new, industrial appearance of Kafan.

Station railway moved into the very center of the city; loading and transportation are mechanized, carried out at a speed unprecedented here; and there is a lot of ore - whole mountains of it move from the mines to the platforms. And before, it used to be that a donkey would mince along mountain paths, carrying ore in a basket to the station; Miners dig ore by hand in dim, devoid of ventilation mines, suffocating from the suffocating air, and slide dozens of fathoms down puzzling ladders that don’t even have landings. Now the mines are simply unrecognizable. Just like the appearance of the city, the whole picture of the work has changed.

At the mines of the so-called Lengruppa, a large capital adit 4.5 kilometers long was built. It leads all the way to Kafan, simplifying and mechanizing the delivery of ore. The donkeys disappeared without a trace. From a height of 500 meters to the level of the main adit, the ore is lowered by a Bremsberg, picked up in the adit by an electric locomotive and runs along the rails all the way to Kafan. Drilling is also mechanized. What does this mean, the numbers say: if in 1926 the norm for manual drilling was 0.4 cubic meters per shift, now this norm is 4 cubic meters per shift!

But the main thing is that the entire factory economy here has been cleverly and radically reorganized. Copper is no longer smelted in Kafan; copper ore is only enriched here. The brainchild of the Leningrad "Mekhanobra", an excellent, modern flotation factory, using the latest technology, washes out and collects ore from parts of waste rock; and then this ore, as a dark, soft, pressed concentrate, goes to the north of the republic, to Lori, to the Alaverdi station, where it is smelted in the furnaces of the Alaverdi copper smelter.

How great are the riches of Zangezur? Is there a lot of copper here? And what is this copper?

The deposits in Zangezur are predominantly veins, running parallel from east to west, at a very steep angle of dip, sometimes almost vertically downwards. The Zangezur deposits have capricious features: as they go deeper, the copper veins expand, and the further down they go, the more profitable it becomes; then, on the contrary, they wedge down. It is difficult to say in advance about such deposits how much copper they contain overall. Here's what we know about Kafan now:

“It can be said with sufficient grounds that its industrial prospects have never been so real. Compared to 1933–1935, the deposit's reserves have now increased significantly. At the same time, not only was a powerful ore zone identified” in one of the former, seemingly depleted mines, “but also a real possibility of identifying similar zones in other areas has been outlined. From all that has been said, it follows that Kafan is on the rise.”

In terms of quality, Zangezur copper is one of the first in the world. The only drawback of Zangezur ore is its difficulty in melting. The waste rocks in which the local copper is enclosed - andesite, quartz porphyrite - are very hard and difficult to melt; Therefore, the rich Zangezur ore is more difficult to smelt than the three percent Ural ore, enclosed in less hard rocks. But this is precisely what led to the current ingenious organization of Kafan, which singled out beneficiation and flotation as the main local business, and transferred smelting to Alaverdi.

The copper industry is not the only pride of the small town in the gorge. Kafan has a remarkable past. When a hydroelectric power station was built a few kilometers from the city, in a gorge of high rocks, it unexpectedly brought a monument of the past closer to the Kafans - the ruins of the David Beg fortress, which were difficult to get to due to the steepness of the paths. The hydroelectric station, however, was only the first step to the fortress located beyond the pass; Continuing to pave the way in the picturesque gorge to the molybdenum deposits of Kajaran, which attracted the attention of geologists back in 1939–1940, the Kafans also made the fortress accessible, where you can now take interesting walks. The past spoke for schoolchildren, it came to life for adults.

Over two hundred years ago, the Armenians agreed with the Georgians on mutual military assistance against the Persian Khan. The talented Armenian commander David Bek, who served in the Georgian army, came from Tbilisi to Kafan, and Kafan became the focal point of the Syunik military forces. David Beg built at the top, in Halidzor, impregnable fortress, the ruins of which are still perfectly preserved. Military councils took place within the walls of Halidzor. When the Turks invaded the Ararat Valley in 1724 and took, breaking the desperate resistance of the Armenians, first Karbi, and then, after months of fighting, Yerevan, the Syunik army became a stronghold of the Armenians against the Turks. And when the Turks moved to Zangezur and captured several areas, David Beg fortified himself in Halidzor. And the old, mossy walls of the ruins, if they had spoken, could tell now how the brave people of Syunik withstood the Turkish siege and assault. From all sides, with shouts and all modern equipment - ladders, torches for arson - the Turks attacked the fortress. But the Syunik people drove them back and, in turn, put the Turks to flight with a bold, unexpected night attack.

And now swifts and swallows hover over the walls of the fortress, the old stones are shaken by evergreen heather and grasshoppers squeal in the thick, fragrant mint that surrounds them.

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Armenia Marz Syunik History and geography Based 19th century First mention 5th century Former names until 1990 - Kafan
City with 1938 Square 36 km² Center height 905.5 m Timezone UTC+4 Population Population 43,190 people (2011) Digital IDs Telephone code +374 (285) Postal codes 3301-3308 kapan.am

Kapan(until 1990 Kafan, Armenian Կապան) - a city in the south, the administrative center of the Syunik region. In 987-1170, the capital of the Armenian kingdom of Syunik.

Geography

Memorial to Garegin Nzhdeh in Kapan. Mount Khustup in the background

The surroundings of Kapan are covered with lush forests; it is located in the east of the Syunik region in the picturesque valley of the Voghji River on the southeastern slopes of the Zangezur ridge between its spurs - the Bargushat and Meghri ridges. To the south of the city is Mount Khustup (3206 m). Located 316 km from.

The city's climate is humid subtropical, with high air humidity in the summer; the temperature at night in winter rarely drops below -15; often in February there are days with temperatures above +18.

Climate of Kapan
Index	Jan.	Feb.	March	Apr.	May	June	July	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Year
Average temperature, °C	1	3,1	7,1	11,6	17,1	21,7	23,5	23,7	19,4	13,4	7,4	2	12,5
Source: http://www.pogodaiklimat.ru/summary/am.htm

Etymology

Kapan translated from Armenian means “narrow, impassable gorge,” gorge, pass.

Story

In the history of Armenia, Kapan was first mentioned in the 5th century as an ordinary settlement. Ancient Kapan was located 14-15 km northwest of the modern city on the right bank of the Voghji River, and was the capital of the Kapan (Dzork) gavar.

By the 10th century, Kapan gradually turned into a feudal city and became the residence of the Dzagikyan princes. At the end of the 9th and beginning of the 10th centuries, the city was rebuilt by Prince Dzagik III and surrounded by a fortress wall.

In 987, the overlord of Syunik, Prince Smbat, proclaimed himself king and founded the kingdom of Syunik. The kingdom of Syunik was part of the Armenian state of the Bagratids. Kapan flourished in the 11th century, when its population numbered approximately 15-20 thousand people. In 1103, Kapan was captured and destroyed by the Seljuks. After this conquest, the city loses its significance and turns into a village. The capital of the Syunik kingdom was moved to Baghaberd.

Today, fragments of the fortress wall and a few forest-covered remains of buildings have been preserved from ancient Kapan.

In the XIII-early XV centuries - part of the possessions of the Orbelyans - the sovereign princes of Syunik.

An Arab author of the 13th century, in his work “Wonders of the World,” speaks of a certain “hard-to-reach region in forests and mountains” that has many fortresses. According to the assumption of N.D. Miklouho-Maclay, we are talking about the district of the city of Kapan.

At the beginning of the 18th century, the legendary David Bek fought against Turkish and Persian invaders in these places. His liberation campaign with a handful of brave men began in 1722, and soon thousands of patriots gathered under his banner and liberated Syunik.

Kapan became part of the Russian Empire in 1828.

During Soviet times...

Economy

New Kapan was formed in the 19th century from the merger of several villages.

It was and remains a center for the extraction of many non-ferrous metals. The industrial development of the local deposits began in the 1890s. Armenian entrepreneurs and French mining engineers who founded a copper mine concession in Kapan. In Soviet times, Kapan was the center of the mining industry, with a copper-molybdenum plant and an enrichment plant operating here. They are still working.

In addition to the copper ore plant, the city also has food processing enterprises, a lighting plant, furniture and knitting factories and a hydroelectric power station.

Population

Population of Kapan

Transport

A highway passes through the city connecting and. At the end of 2008, in addition to the existing section of the Kapan-Kajaran highway, an alternative section of the Kapan-Shikaokh highway was also built.

The inactive Kapan-Kovsakan railway line departs from the city.

Before the start of the Karabakh war, there was air communication with Kapan. The small airport received Yak-40 aircraft and AN-14 cargo aircraft.

The nearest airport is located 62 km to the north, but there are no regular passenger flights there.

Attractions

The city has an archaeological and ethnographic museum, a local history museum and a theater. An equestrian statue of David Beg stands tall in the city center. The monument to another Armenian hero - Garegin Nzhdeh - is located a few kilometers from the city center, upstream of the Vachagan River. On the way to it you can see a modern church built from pink tuff. This is a whole memorial complex located at the foot of Mount Khustup (3206 m), reigning over Kapan.

Football

Currently, in the Armenian football championship, the city, as well as the entire south of the country, is represented by the Gandzasar club, the official sponsor of which is the Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine.

Twin Cities

see also

• List of cities in Armenia
• Category:Born in Kapan

Notes

1. Armenian-Russian dictionary
2. Hakobyan T. Kh., Melik-Bashkhyan St. T., Barseghyan O. Kh. Dictionary of toponyms of Armenia and adjacent territories = Հայաստանի և հարակից շրջանների տեղանունների բառարան. - Er. : Yerevan University Publishing House, 1988. - T. 2. - P. 946-947. - 992 s. - 30,000 copies.
3. Kingdom of Syunik // Great Soviet Encyclopedia: [in 30 volumes] / ch. ed. A. M. Prokhorov. - 3rd ed. - M.: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
4. The Journal of Jewish studies, Volume 53, p. 68
5. Thomas F. Mathews, Avedis Krikor Sanjian. Armenian gospel iconography: the tradition of the Glajor Gospel. - Dumbarton Oaks, 1991. - P. 17.
6. comment 490 to the text ADJA'IB AD-DUNYA (Wonders of the World) Geographical work of the 13th century
7. Information about the city (Russian)
8. Information about the city (Russian)
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10. Alternative highway Meghri-Kapan opened (Russian)
11. The second Meghri-Kapan highway opened (unavailable link)(Russian)
12. List of monuments Archived copy of May 7, 2013 on the Wayback Machine (Russian)
13. Chinese Ningbo and Armenian Kapan signed a twinning agreement

Links

• Profile on geonames (English)
• World Gazetteer profile

• armenia-kapan.ru (Kapan: Photo, Video, History)