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ARTSAKH PRESIDENT VISITED STEPANAKERT MEMORIAL ON SPITAK EARTHQUAKE 24TH ANNIVERSARY
15:40, 7 December, 2012
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS: Artsakh Republic President Bako
Sahakyan accompanied by top officials of the Republic visited
Stepanakert memorial complex and laid flowers to the monument of
innocent victims of the natural disaster on 7 December in connection
with the twenty-forth anniversary of the Spitak Earthquake. Central
information department of the office of the NKR President informed
Armenpress.
As reports "Armenpress" in few seconds the earthquake ruined partially
or entirely cities of Spitak, Leninakan, Kirovakan, and Stepanavan.
More than 100 villages and regions were ruined in Spitak, Akhuryan,
Gugark, Aragats, Kalinino, and Stepanavan. More than 25 thousand
people died. About 500 thousand men were left homeless.
More than 230 industry objects providing job for 82 thousand people
were ruined. The next day of earthquake special committee of the
Council of Ministers of the USSR headed by Nikolay Ryzhkov arrived in
Armenia from Moscow. The committee zealously and carefully carried out
the organization of aid to the people abolishing the circumstances
of the earthquake. More than 113 countries and 7 international
organizations supported Armenia in those terrible days.
15:40, 7 December, 2012
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS: Artsakh Republic President Bako
Sahakyan accompanied by top officials of the Republic visited
Stepanakert memorial complex and laid flowers to the monument of
innocent victims of the natural disaster on 7 December in connection
with the twenty-forth anniversary of the Spitak Earthquake. Central
information department of the office of the NKR President informed
Armenpress.
As reports "Armenpress" in few seconds the earthquake ruined partially
or entirely cities of Spitak, Leninakan, Kirovakan, and Stepanavan.
More than 100 villages and regions were ruined in Spitak, Akhuryan,
Gugark, Aragats, Kalinino, and Stepanavan. More than 25 thousand
people died. About 500 thousand men were left homeless.
More than 230 industry objects providing job for 82 thousand people
were ruined. The next day of earthquake special committee of the
Council of Ministers of the USSR headed by Nikolay Ryzhkov arrived in
Armenia from Moscow. The committee zealously and carefully carried out
the organization of aid to the people abolishing the circumstances
of the earthquake. More than 113 countries and 7 international
organizations supported Armenia in those terrible days.