There Is Love in Chkalov
July 16, 2021
Chkalov, “chka love” (in Armenian, there is no love). This is how the people from Lori usually joke when a stranger is first accompanied to the village of Chkalov.
Chkalov, “chka love” (in Armenian, there is no love). This is how the people from Lori usually joke when a stranger is first accompanied to the village of Chkalov.
On the rocky uplands of the Shirak region of Armenia lies Vardakar village that has many pink stones (vard= rose, kar=stone).
“It is so freezing here that there is no need for a refrigerator” is the joke people often use to describe Lanjik.
Today the Ulikhanyan family of seven lives in Aghavnavank village of the Tavush region.
In Hagvi village of the Lori region, their favorite berry is a blackberry and their favorite alcohol is calvados. Yes, yes, you heard right, Calvados.
We – the most adaptable creatures in the entire universe – have learned to live or even travel with it.
Childhood memories may be varied. “I was overjoyed when my parents took me to the farm to either sow potatoes or to uproot them.
If you have been to Arevatsag (Ghachaghan), you are likely to have heard “ջրչոր եղած ղաչաղանցի” phrase that means the people of Ghachaghan are anhydrous.
Air rich in oxygen, clean food, and breathtaking nature all around are some of the luxuries of Koti village of Armenia’s alpine Tavush region.
Twenty-two years ago, Vanyans left Yerevan for Tsaghkaberd village of the Kashatagh region in Artsakh, without anything, empty-handed.
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