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  Alaverdi - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Alaverdi ("Ալավերդի" in Armenian) is a town situated in the northeast of the Armenian province of Lorri, not far from the border with Georgia.
This mining and industrial town with approximately 20,000 inhabitants (various sources indicate different numbers between 10,000 and 30,000), situated at the bottom of the Debed river gorge, is one of the commercial centres of the district.
Alaverdi is situated at the only direct rail link between Armenia and Georgia, and one of the several important road connections between the two countries also passes through the town.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Alaverdi   (293 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Alaverdi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Alaverdi residents say that fumes from the factory spread throughout every district in the city, depending on how the wind is blowing.
Susanna Mikoyan, who was a therapist at the copper plant from 1977 to1986, attests that almost all of the workers from the sulphuric department she saw died of tumors.
And this was in the former, Soviet-era conditions, when the Alaverdi chemical giant operated with minimal pollution, when the plant was producing sulphuric acid as well, and 75-80 percent of the sulphuric gas now being emitted into the atmosphere was being absorbed.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alaverdi   (643 words)

  
 Baker Hostetler - Lawyers - Loura L. Alaverdi
Alaverdi also successfully resolved a case at mediation on behalf of a client accused of unlawful use of a non-registered trademark.
Alaverdi was part of a successful trial team that defended a multimillion-dollar corporation in a five-week jury trial.
Alaverdi served as an extern to the Honorable Harry Pregerson in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
www.bakerlaw.com /FindLawyers.aspx?Abs_Ppl_ID=07b170f9-c23c-4d80-81c3-a7935b1dc8da   (350 words)

  
 Armenia: Child Defect Scourge
Amalia Azatian, head doctor with the Alaverdi maternity hospital, said that she is often asked at the Armenian health ministry when she submits her annual reports why there are so many children and foeti with abnormalities in her town.
Alaverdi is situated 190 kilometres to the north of Yerevan.
They point out that health ministry data suggests there were no birth anomalies recorded in Alaverdi in 1992, when the factory was idle but that in 2001, 28 cases of defects were registered and the corresponding figure in 2004 was 107.
www.iwpr.net /?p=crs&s=f&o=258813&apc_state=henh   (1026 words)

  
 Kakheti
The attraction of Kakheti is Alaverdi, a church of the 11
It was the week of Alaveroba, the saints-feast to which for hundreds of years the shepherds come down from Pshavi to dance with the peasants of the Kakheti valley.
Alaverdi had been turned into a motley camp ground for the cars of the "rich" peasants and the horse-drawn wagons of the shepherds.
vdjorbenadze.tripod.com /Kakheti/Kakheti.htm   (752 words)

  
 Alaverdi Town - Armeniapedia.org
The hub of this entire section of Lori is the rather bleak Soviet town of Alaverdi, with its upper suburbs of Sanahin and Sarahart.
At one point, Alaverdi was allegedly the source of one quarter of the Russian Empire's output of refined copper.
Alaverdi lies in one of the milder parts of Armenia, with relatively little snow, and nice summers.
www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=Alaverdi   (653 words)

  
 ArmeniaNow.com - Independent Journalism From Today`s Armenia
In the Soviet times Alaverdi used to be a center of metallurgic industry in the South Caucasus, with a population of 25,000.
Nalbandyan says they do their best to change the life, but it seems like Alaverdi, 191 kilometers north of Yerevan, is distanced from the capital in terms of not only its location but also the living conditions and the routine life.
“Alaverdi is one of the forgotten corners of the world,” says the former acting Mayor Larisa Paremuzyan, who is at present the president of the “Women Support Center”.
armenianow.com /?action=viewArticle&AID=1246&CID=1411&IID=&lng=eng   (1254 words)

  
 Hetq Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Although the district is located at a higher elevation and far from the plant, it is frequently covered with clouds of sulphuric gas.
According to data from the Ministry of Ecology, the average annual density of sulphuric gas in Alaverdi from 1997 to 2004 has reached the highest permissible level.
"The diseases in Alaverdi are connected to the plant; the environment is very bad," she said.
www.hetq.am /eng/ecology/0510-alaverdi.html   (1003 words)

  
 Georgia Today on the Web
A scientific press conference presenting “The Papers of the History of Alaverdi” is a new project organized by the Georgian National Museum, together with the Alaverdi Eparchy and the Ivane Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology.
“Alaverdi is a comparable monastery for that period, that’s why we decided to show the monuments, architectural works, originals and copies, also stone fragments of the era of X-XI centuries,” said Burchuladze.
Alaverdi epoch is described in Georgian art of mid-centuries.
www.georgiatoday.ge /article_details.php?id=1972   (418 words)

  
 ArmeniaNow.com - Independent Journalism From Today`s Armenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
When doctors in the Spandaryan district of Alaverdi are late for work at the local hospital, their boss points out the window to the tall chimney of a copper-smelting plant that belches pungent smoke.
For the 22,000 residents of Alaverdi, the operation that takes mined copper ore and turns it into metal is both the economic lifeblood of the town and a source of growing concern about its effects on health and the environment.
One young Alaverdi resident says she was forced to abort her 7-month pregnancy in October 2005 after doctors determined that her baby would be born without part of its brain.
armenianow.com /?action=viewArticle&AID=1498&CID=1621&IID=1079&lng=eng   (2523 words)

  
 Hetq Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rosa Machkalyan of the Alaverdi maternity hospital believes that these problems are acute among the residents of Alaverdi and the adjacent communities.
One is in the lowest area of Alaverdi, where the quantity of sulphur emission is noticeable only on ultra-humid days, and the other one is in the upland region of Sanahin, which is elevated and away from the main direction of the wind.
However, the planning department of the Alaverdi mayor’s office had had a project drafted by the end of 2001, and it had been discussed by NGO representatives, political organizations and other interested parties.
www.hetq.am /eng/ecology/h-0703-alaverdi.html   (685 words)

  
 Helsinki Citizens Assembly of Vanadzor
During the project a portion of the river was cleaned with the help of 20 students from Alaverdi State College.
In 2002 the number of premature deliveries decreased, but since the overall number of childbirths decreased during the last year, the percentage of the premature births remained high.
In 1998 there were 55 miscarriages in Alaverdi; in 2001 there were 107, and in 2002, 60.
www.hcav.am /support2.html   (832 words)

  
 Armenia child defects inked to copper smelting
Anahit was in her seventh month of pregnancy, so we had to induce premature delivery artificially," said Roza Machkalian, head of the women's consultation department at the Alaverdi maternity hospital.
Notwithstanding the concerns about the plant, Larisa Paremuzian, chairwoman of the Women's Support Centre in Alaverdi, said there was some local ambivalence towards it.
She said that when the plant closed down in 1988 the environment began improving noticeably - but that at the same time, deprived of the town's main source of employment, many locals began to emigrate because there were no jobs.
www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/press849.htm   (836 words)

  
 Armenian News - WHEN BODY IS HEALTHY BUT MIND IS REPUBLICAN
The Republican Party of Armenia, more exactly its young members took the holiday of the creation of the Armenian army to remote Alaverdi on January 26 to show that the army is a holiday which is always with you.
Judging by this film, which is based on the the results of a survey, the environment in the town is highly polluted, which threatens the health of people.
In addition, the chair of the Council of the Republican Party “vowed” that his political party will continue to poison the people of Alaverdi and the rest of the region of Lori, since they think that mining is the future of Lori.
www.armtown.com /news/en/lra/20070129/9541   (1050 words)

  
 At Home in Alaverdi
Alaverdi is a town of 30,000 people, located in the high mountains of northern Armenia, in the district of Lori.
As we drove the streets of Alaverdi, I noticed that Henzel was waving at nearly everyone we met.
On the outskirts of Alaverdi, close to the Debet River, a monument honors those from the area who gave their lives for the liberation of Karabagh.
www.road-to-armenia.com /articles/1998/alaverdi.html   (1554 words)

  
 Alaverdi Hotels
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www.armenia-topics.com /Armenia-Balkans/Alaverdi-Hotels.html   (161 words)

  
 Sanahin Monastery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Monastery of Sanahin is situated on the wooded mountain slope of Mt. Tchantinler above the village of Sanahin, in the region of Alaverdi, Republic of Armenia (approx.
The monastery is also 2 km southeast of the town of Alaverdi.
The oldest references to the monastery were found in early 10th century Armenian manuscripts and relate that the monastery was constructed over the ruins of a 4th or 5th century church.
www.lib.rpi.edu /dept/library/html/ArmArch/San.html   (176 words)

  
 Haghbat: S. Nshan Monastery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Monastery of S.Nshan is located in the village of Haghbat on a plateau in the Alaverdi region of the Republic of Armenia (approx.coord.
It is 6 km from the town of Alaverdi which is the regional capital.
According to documentary sources the monastery was founded in 976 AD and the fortress of Kalan was built to protect it in 1233 AD.
www.lib.rpi.edu /dept/library/html/ArmArch/Hag.html   (158 words)

  
 Alaverdi travel guide
Alaverdi (Ալավերդի) is an industrial and mining town at the bottom of the Debed gorge in the northern part of the northern province of Lori, quite close to the border with Georgia.
At the site of the present day Alaverdi a bridge was built in the 12th century and the settlement only arose in 18th century when copper ore was found.
The three and a half hour journey may start in a variety of locations in the center of Yerevan but goes via Ashtarak, Yezidi populated Aparan, breathtaking Spitak Pass, Vanadzor where it enters the Debed gorge and about an hour later arrives in Alaverdi.
www.world66.com /europe/armenia/alaverdi   (474 words)

  
 ARMINFO - independent armenian news agency
Despite this obscure outlook of ecological improvement in the region, ACP has not monitored the influence of the toxic emission of the plant on the environment and the human health.
According to data of the Environmental Conservation and Research Center, the concentration of lead in Debet in the area of the town of Alaverdi is exceeded trice - from 0.01 mg/sq.m (Vanadzor) to 3,000 mg/sq.m (Alaverdi).
Despite S. Yeritsyan's call "not to look at the situation in Alaverdi from the point of view of ecology," he had to answer the question about the influence of weather on the increase of pollution in the town.
www.arminfo.info /economy-issue15.shtml   (1501 words)

  
 WORLD COUNCIL OF HELLENES ABROAD (SAE/ÓÁÅ) - Projects and Initiatives - Medical Relief Initiative
In September 2001, SAE established a health care center in Alaverdi, Armenia to provide both primary and special medical care to more that 3,000 Hellenes and their neighbors monthly.
A SAE Medical Mobile Unit travels to rural, remote villages to provide basic medical care and visiting nurses stations in four villages helps to offer more immediate and basic care until patients who need further assistance are able to travel to the SAE clinic in Alaverdi.
Andrew A. Athens (center) and Dr. Charles Kanakis (far left) along with dignitaries from Greece and US attend grand opening of the SAE Health Care Center in Alaverdi, Armenia in September 2001.
www.saeworld.org /armenia.html   (347 words)

  
 kakheti.net
Both of them stand in a forest of deciduous trees which makes them look even more enchanting.
The Alaverdi Monastery was the principle and most extensive Christian enclave in Kakheti.
The Alaverdi Cathedral is located in the stunning Alazani Valley.
kakheti.net   (176 words)

  
 Mineral resources - Pressures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Alaverdi metallurgical plant started processing copper in the beginning of the 30s.
Local mines as well as copper mines from southern Armenia used to send their output to the Alaverdi plant to produce copper.
Copper smelting was considered the main source of air pollution in Alaverdi.
www.aua.am /aua/research/ecrc/SoE2000/eng/minres/mpres3.htm   (685 words)

  
 Alaverdi, ARMENIA :: city code, area code, dial code, country code
Alaverdi, ARMENIA :: city code, area code, dial code, country code
Two kilometres from Alaverdi is the Sanain group of buildings.
NOTE: The Debed Canyon streches from Vanadzor past Alaverdi.
www.prozzone.com /phone/Armenia/Alaverdi.htm   (194 words)

  
 Alaverdi, Lori Copywriters - Copy Writer
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 Send flowers to Alaverdi. Send gifts to Alaverdi. Flowers delivery service - Alaverdi - Armenia
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As we are heavy with orders on holidays, please to make the orders of flowers not less than 5-6 days prior to the date of delivery.
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 ALAVERDI - Georgian Wines high quality Georgian wines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
ALAVERDI - Georgian Wines high quality Georgian wines
Scientists recognize Georgia as the centre of viticulture and winegrowing development.
The top of the ridge is on 3500 meters.
www.alaverdi-wine.com   (252 words)

  
 Alaverdi Photos at PBase.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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Find contact info on the photographer's profile page.
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 Manes&Vallex
construct a 30,000 tpy smelter to reconstruct the Alaverdi Copper Smelter and equip for the
Reconstruction and extension of the operating Alaverdi smelting plant through the
The Alaverdi copper smelter celebrated in the year
www.armeniaemb.org /BusinessEconomy/Investment/Mining/Manex&Vallex.htm   (886 words)

  
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