* Yerevan 1996, board 1, 7 / 12 (+ 3 = 8-1 );

** Yerevan 1996, 1st board, 6 / 12, + 3 = 6 − 3 ;

* Yerevan 1996, Ukraine board 1, 8½ / 11 (+ 6 = 5-0 ), team silver, board silver, perf.

A tournament in Yerevan in 1996 attracted 21 chess masters.

They have two sons and got to know each other at the Chess Olympiad 1996 in Yerevan.

On 15 July 2009, Caspian Airlines Flight 7908, a Tupolev Tu-154M, traveling from Tehran to Yerevan crashed near the Iranian town of Qazvin, killing all 168 people ( 156 passengers, 12 crew ) on board.

A second air transport incident occurred the following day at Yerevan ( capital of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic ) when an Antonov An-12 from Yugoslavia crashed killing all seven crew on board.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Yerevan city's population was over 29, 000, of which 49 % were Azerbaijani Tatars, 48 % Armenians and 2 % Russians.

However, after a short period of independence, on 29 November 1920, the Bolshevik 11th Red Army entered Yerevan during the Russian Civil War, on 29 November 1920, and Armenia was incorporated into the Soviet Union on 2 December 1920.

Yerevan experiences an average of 2, 700 sunlight hours per year.

On April 2, 1990 the founding council composed of the detachment commanders of the Army of Independence proclaimed the establishment of the Republican Party of Armenia in Yerevan and became the first officially registered socio-political organization in the Republic of Armenia ( registered on May 14, 1991 ).

Yet, by the early 1970s, there were a range of popular bands in the capital city of Yerevan strong enough to compete with their Soviet counterparts-Arthur Meschian's " Arakyalner ", " 1 + 2 ", " Kaleidoscope " and " Bliki ".

The February Uprising ( P ' etrvaryan apstambut ' yun ; ) was an anti-Soviet rebellion by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation which started on February 13 and was suppressed on April 2, 1921 by recaptuing of Yerevan by Bolshevik forces.

They captured Aparan, Kotayk and gradually emerging, entered Yerevan on April 2.

By the turn of the twentieth century, the population of Yerevan, now the capital of Armenia, was over 29, 000 ; of this number 49 % were Tatars ( Turkic tribes ) and Kurds ( Muslims ), both nomadic and semi-nomadic ; 48 % were Armenians ; and 2 % were Russians.

The Armenian Constitution, adopted on 5 July 1995, granted Yerevan the status of a marz ( region ).

* AH83, 172 km ( 107. 5 miles ); Kazakh, Azerbaijan ( on AH5 ) to Yerevan, Armenia ( on AH81 / AH82 )

On May 5, 1986, a first-of-its-kind Rock Festival was organized at the Youth Palace night club in Yerevan.

Mark Levi returned to the Soviet Union during WWII and spent the rest of his life in Yerevan, where he died on August 5, 1973.

Most of the population lives in the western and northwestern parts of the country, where the two major cities, Yerevan and Gyumri ( which was called Aleksandropol ' during the tsarist period ), are located.

By 1980 the infrequency of sightings of Mount Ararat, which looms about sixty kilometers across the Turkish border, became a symbol of worsening air pollution in Yerevan.

The capital and largest city is Yerevan.

In addition to the Yerevan administrative region, Armenia is split into ten administrative divisions, known as marzer ( singular: marz ); these are Ararat, Aragatsotn, Armavir, Gegharkunik, Kotayk, Lori, Shirak, Syunik, Tavush, and Vayots Dzor.

In October 2009, when visiting Yerevan, the World Bank ’ s managing director, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, warned that Armenia will not reach a higher level of development unless its leadership changes the " oligopolistic " structure of the national economy, bolsters the rule of law and shows " zero tolerance " towards corruption.

" I think you can only go so far with this economic model ," Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told a news conference in Yerevan.

In June 2010, Transport Minister Manuk Vartanian revealed that Yerevan is seeking as much as $ 1 billion in loans from China to finance the railway ’ s construction.

According to research commissioned by the Yerevan office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), at least one in three working-age Armenians was unemployed as of February 2005 despite several consecutive years of double-digit economic growth.

There is no service south of Yerevan.

Moscow also deployed troops to Yerevan.

* In Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, Sakharov Square, located in the heart of the city, is named after him.

File: Cathedrale-erevan003. jpg | Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral, Yerevan, ( finished in 2001 ) contains the remains of St Gregory

* 1907 – The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.

Only two Sultans in this period personally exercised strong political and military control of the Empire: the vigorous Murad IV ( 1612 – 1640 ) recaptured Yerevan ( 1635 ) and Baghdad ( 1639 ) from the Safavids and reasserted central authority, albeit during a brief majority reign.

* 1827 – Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.

A sign in Yerevan, Armenia.

* 1958 – United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission.

* 1922 – The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.

* Turkmenistan has an embassy in Yerevan.

The Volgograd International Airport provides air links to major Russian cities as well as Antalya, Yerevan, and Aktau.

Yerevan ( ) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities.

Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country.

The history of Yerevan dates back to the 8th century BC, with the founding of the fortress of Erebuni in 782 BC by king Argishti I at the western extreme of the Ararat plain.

After World War I, Yerevan became the capital of the Democratic Republic of Armenia as thousands of survivors of the Armenian Genocide settled in the area.

In fifty years, Yerevan was transformed from a town of a few thousand residents within the Russian Empire, to Armenia's principal cultural, artistic, and industrial center, as well as becoming the seat of national government.