UNDER CONSTRUCTION

   Next  is Tsaghkashen    (till  1950 Takiarli).

   An unmarked road leads  E from  the main Aparan highway to the little settlement of Jrambar housing workers and security personnel for the Aparan dam and reservoir which supply some of Yerevan’s drinking water. Beneath the waters of the reservoir are the ruins of Zovuni, with an important Poghos-Petros church, Tukh   Manuk   shrine   with  cemetery,

and mortuary chapel called by popular tradition the mausoleum of Zoravar Vardan Mamikonian, the heroic loser of the battle of Avarayr. The church and mausoleum were moved stone by stone to higher ground E of the reservoir.