Republic of Armenia, Shirak region, Gyumri, Vazgen Sargsyan 5a, Shirak Centre for Armenological Studies of National Academy of Sciences RA
 
 
C O N T E N T S
ARCHAEOLOGY

Avagyan I. E.

 

The Sarduri Chronicle about the Land of Eriakhi

5  
Hovhannisyan A.
 

Study of the Weapons of Ancient Armenia (preview)

15  

Vardanyan B. V., Mkrtchyan L. A.

 

Modelling of Bronze and Iron Age Monuments at Lernakert

21  
 
HISTORY

Petrosyan S. G.

  To the Formation of the Urartian Kingdom 33  

Petrosyan L. S.

 

About the Term "Shertavor" Mentioned by Movses Khorenatsi

42  

Nazaryan L.

 

The Domains of the Bagratuni Power in Tayk and Kgharjk in the Late 8th –Early 9th Century

49  

Sahakyan L. S.

 

Khaghtiq-Hamshen – the Ancestral Homeland and Part of the Statehood of Armenians

60  

Ayvazyan G. S.

 

Spiritual Presence of the Venetian Congregation of the Mkhitarists in the Public Life of Alexandrapol

78  

Kazaryan G. S.

  The Suffragans of Metropolis of Trebizond in IX-XI Centuries 87  

Maloyan A. M.

 

About Some Data From the History of Karin (last quarter of the XVIII century - first quarter of the XIX century)

95  

Akopov A. A., Hayrapetyan A. S.

 

On the Location and Current Condition of the Historical and Architectural Monuments of Kiskim (Berdagrak) Province

101  

Manucharyan A. G.

 

The Vikartiat of Kars in the Years of the First Republic of Armenia

115  
Movsesyan N. M.
 

The Assessement of the Fall of Kars in the Historiography of Contemporaries of Armenia (October, 1920)

123  

Sargsyan A. G.

 

Kars: the Past and the Present

131  

Aleksanyan K. V.

 

Turkish Strategy of Creeping Expansion in 1920 in the course of the Turkish-Armenian War

140  
Hovhannisyan H. A.
 

Comparative Analysis of Ruben Heryan’s and Vahan Cheraz’s Activities

148  

Melik – Adamyan H. H., Khachatryan H.H., Hovhannisyan A.Y., Babayan T.Օ.

  Russian and European Travelers in North-Eastern Armenia (up to 1820) 155  

Corley F.

  Lay-Led Campaigns for Armenian Churches: Why so Rare? 163  
Krbekyan V. G., Melik-Adamyan H. H.
 

Professor P. I. Lebedev’s Contribution to the Study of 1926 Leninakan Earthquake (to Lebedev’s 135th Anniversary)

170  
 
DEMOGRAPHY

Boyajyan A. G.

 

Movement of the Number of National Minorities of the Shirak Region (end of XX century begging of XXI)

177  
 
ETHNOGRAPHY

Galstyan H.

  Khipilik as a Demon of Nightmare 188  

Sahakyan K. A., Hovhannisyan R․ P.

  Local Narrations About Celebrated Families in Gyumri-Alexandrapol 194  

Bazeyan K. R.

  Fabric of Art of Shirak in XIX and the Beginning of the XX th Century 204  

Melkonyan V. G.

 

The Way of Leninakan’s Becoming an Industrial City (People's Voices as a Source of Study)

212  
 
FOLKLORE

McDowall R., Matikyan H. H.

 

Childlore and Children’s Folklore in the UK and in Armenia (Historical and Current Perspective)

218  
Tarayan Z. R.
  Ballad “Karos Khach” and the Ruthwell Cross 229  

Matikyan H. H.

  Lullaby as an Awakening Text 236  
 
ARTSTUDIES
Hakobyan Z. А.
 

Daniel or Thecla? On the Reading of a Composition of Early Medieval Armenian Sculpture

246  

Petrosyan A. S.

 

Animal Sculptures of the Exterior Decoration of the Church of St. Gregory in Ani: Symbolism and Parallels in Medieval Armenian Art

256  
Mikayelyan L. Sh.
 

Bas-Reliefs of Animal Heads in the Decoration of Some Churches of Bagratid Armenia

266  
Avetisyan T. R.
 

Rhipidion and Banner in the Decoration of the Drums of the Armenian Churches of the Early 13th Century (Harichavank, Hovhanavank, Gandzasar)

277  
Markaryan А. V.
 

The Artistic Life of Alexandropol at the Beginning of the XX Century. To the 100th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Art Studio (School)

288  
 
ARCHITECTURE
Nahatakyan D. S.
 

Norashen Church in the Context of the Armenian Architectural School of Taika and Gugark of the X-XI Centuries

294  
 
BOOK REVIEW
Hakobyan A. G.
  While Reading R. Hovhannisyan’s “Braking Radiation” 307  
SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION 310  
 

 

 

 

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