357 THOUSAND HA FOREST TO BE CUT DURING TEGHUT MINING
During the mining of Teghut mines, 357 thousand ha of forest will be cut, and the water basin will go down by 4.73 percent. The mine will bring $100 million proceeds annually. This was said by Hovanes Nikoghosyan, environmental department head of Mountain Metallurgy Institute during a discussion on Teghut mines. In his words, the proceeds will total some 3.2 bln drams according to initial estimates and 1700 new employment places will be opened during the commissioning. Asked by Tatul Manaseryan, ex deputy of parliament, if the information that some 100 people have refused to provide their land is true, Sahak Karapetyan, representative of Valex Group said: 105 people refused to leave their land but by the government decision November 1 these areas are considered territories of public interest and the land will be alienated. He also said the compensation will be in accordance with the market prices. Tatul Manaseryan recalled that 200-250 villages disappeared due to such actions during the Soviet era and now that number is 300. To that, the representative of Vallex group said that the community residents will not leave their homes, on the contrary, they will increase in numbers since new employment places will open.
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- 1868 Death of Mkrtich Peshiktashlian, writer and public figure. He was born in 1828.
- 1868 Death of Mkrtich Peshiktashlyan (public figure) in Constantinople. He was born in 1829.
- 1876 Death of Nahapet Rusinyan (physician and public figure) in Constantinople. He was born in 1819.
- 1920 Soviet power is established in Armenia.
- 1922 Inauguration of the Lenin irrigation canal in Echmeeadsin.
- 1926 Birth of painter Grigor Khanjyan in Yerevan. He died in 2000.
- 1926 Opening of Yerevan's soap and oil factory and lumber mill.
- 1928 Opening of Gyumri's cotton-mill and the "May Revolt" power station.
- 1929 Opening of the Leninakan-Artik railroad.
- 1929 Inauguration of the Yerevan Youth Theatre.
- 1930 Opening of Sardarapat's irrigation canal.
- 1931 Opening of the Kartchevan irrigation canal in the Meghri region.
- 1933 The chemical plant of Kirovakan and the cement factory of Davaloo start operations.
- 1934 Inauguration of the Yerevan-Kanaker railroad.
- 1935 M.I. Kalinin visits Yerevan.
- 1937 Yeghisheh Charents (writer) is murdered in 1937 by the Soviet Police. He was born in 1897.
- 1939 Catholic Gevorg the Sixth addresses the governments of the USSR, USA and Great Britain requesting the reunification (with Armenia) of the Armenian territories occupied by Turkey.
- 1943 The Armenian SSR Academy of Sciences is opened.
- 1944 Opening of the Loree and Adgaman (Martooni region) irrigation canals.
- 1951 Death of Levon Shant (writer, public figure). He was born in 1869.
- 1960 Inauguration of the eternal flame in Shahumyan Park to commemorate those who died for the sovietization of Armenia.
- 1965 Inauguration of Meekael Nalbandyan's (politician/writer) monument in Yerevan.
- 1970 Hrazdan's mineral-chemical plant's cement factory starts production.
- 1992 Artsakh forces liberate the villages of Hayi Bazar, Loolidooz, Ghozloo, and Gharajanli in the northern front of the Lachin corridor.
- 1998 Death of Karp Khachvankyan (actor) in Yerevan. He was known as the "Prince of Laughter". He was born in 1923 in Akhaltskha (Georgia).
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