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Turning
right (S) at the outskirts of Sevan onto the Gavar road, one
first reaches Lchashen,
till 1946 Ordaklu, inhabited from before 3000 BC.
There are remains of a 13th c. church, and an Iron Age
fort 3 km S, with Urartian occupation; 3 km E is the major Bronze
Age cemetery.
Excavations here identified the
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Next village, again W
of the road, is
Chkalovka,
founded 1840 by Russian emigrants as Alexandrovka on the site of
Zeynalaghali, renamed in 1946 for Valeri Chkalov, famed test
pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union, killed during a test flight
in 1938.
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Bronze
Age cultural type in Armenia, the so-called Lchashen-Metsamor
culture dating from about 1500 BC to the Urartian conquest in
the 8th century BC.
Two chariots excavated at the site and other interesting
materials are now on display in the State History Museum in
Yerevan.
Near the cemetery, on the left side of the Sevan-Gavar
road about 15-20 m from the road, there is an inscription of
Arghishti I carved in the rock facing the lake.
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