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At about 16 km
one reaches a fork on the outskirts of Chambarak,
the left track passing through the administrative center of the
former Krasnosyelsk rayon. Chambarak was founded in 1835-40 on
the Getik (“little river”) by Russian immigrants, with the
name Mikhaylovka.
In 1920 it became Karmir Gyugh (“Red
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Turning
right (SE) in Chambarak, the road leads to Vahan,
formerly Orjonikidze, founded in 1925 in honor of Sergo
Orjonikidze (1886-1937), the great Caucasus revolutionary.
At the E end of Vahan, on a hill between two tributaries
of the Getik, is an Early Iron Age cyclopean fort. |
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Krasnosyelsk (meaning the same in Russian).
This is a border region whose eastern defensive positions
are still subject to occasional shelling.
At the far end of town (jog right then left in the
center), one reaches a crossroads.
Turning left to follow the Getik, one sees on the right,
five houses before the NW edge of town, the (reportedly still
functioning) house museum of the Borian brothers.
Armenak, one of the 26 Baku commissars, was shot by
Bolshevik-fearing Turkmen in September 1918, while his more
successful brother Bagrat, revolutionary, Pravda correspondent,
and Central Committee member, met his maker in 1938 after
fatally underestimating the role of Russia in his history of
Armenian diplomacy.
Chambarak also boasts some 13th c. khachkars.
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