Mrgashen
Sign in to saveMrgashen (; until 1964, "the village attached to Sovkhoz No. 36") is a village in the Kotayk Province of Armenia. It is located along the left bank of the Arzni-Shamiram aqueduct. Mrgashen was officially founded in March 1960 around the state-owned collective farm, or Sovkhoz No. 6. The local economy is highly dependent on agriculture, based primarily on orchard cultivation and pig or cattle breeding. The community currently has a school, kindergarten, house of culture (seating for 300), medical station (with six employees), and a library. Sixty percent of households receive natural gas, and d
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Within Vinony's link graph, Mrgashen is referenced by 72 other articles, and connects out to Kotayk Province, Armenia and time zone.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 3 mapped points.
It is catalogued under the topic Populated places in Kotayk Province.
Its subject is documented across 18 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Mrgashen Մրգաշեն
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Armenia
- Settlement.mapsize
- 150px
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Armenia
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Marz (Province)
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Kotayk
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1950/March 1960
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 10.97
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_total
- 1,933
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone
-
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 1280
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Մրգաշեն
- Country
- Armenia
- Located in
- Raión de Nairi
- Official language
- Armenian
- Population
- 2035
- Area
- 10.97
- Elevation
- 1280
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
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- Mrgashen
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Mrgashen (; until 1964, "the village attached to Sovkhoz No. 36") is a village in the Kotayk Province of Armenia. It is located along the left bank of the Arzni-Shamiram aqueduct. Mrgashen was officially founded in March 1960 around the state-owned collective farm, or Sovkhoz No. 6. The local economy is highly dependent on agriculture, based primarily on orchard cultivation and pig or cattle breeding. The community currently has a school, kindergarten, house of culture (seating for 300), medical station (with six employees), and a library. Sixty percent of households receive natural gas, and drinking water for the village comes from the Arzakan-Yerevan network, while water for irrigation comes from the Arzni-Shamiram aqueduct.
thumb | right | alt=Photograph if a sign on the side of the road with the name of the village in English and Armenian
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