The reservoir of Marmarik will provide 20mln cube water to Sevan-Hrazdan irrigation system, hence reducing the amount of water which is got from Sevan. Today the Minister of Territorial Administration Armen Gevorgyan visited to reservoir in Kotayk region to get acquainted with the reconstruction activities.
In the Municipality of Tsaghkazor the officials have discussed tourism development projects. The Vice Premier Minister was introduced to the work done before. Due to the reconstruction and development of the rest region every year the number of tourists visiting Tsaghkazor increases by 30%.
Source: Panorama.am
The territory of Tsakhkadzor (in Armenian the word means Gorge of Flowers) was inhabited yet from the ancient times, the evidence of which are the archeological finds from the abovementioned area. In the course of III-V cc. the forests surrounding this settlement were game-preserves and served for royal hunt. In the XI century Grigor Magistros the Pahlavuni gave orders to construct the church of Grigor Lusavorich (Gregory the Illuminator), laying the groundwork for Kecharis monastery complex, which has been prospering up till the close of XIV century. All the churches and chapels of the complex stood fast till the XVII century. In 1828 as a consequence of unification of Eastern Armenia with Russia, thousands of Armenians migrated from Persia and Western Armenia and got established in the villages of Darachichagh region (Tsakhkadzor).
In the 70s of the XIX century the settlement got populated by Malacans. In the end of XIX century the cream of the crop and influential residents of Yerevan and Tbilisi constructed numerous cottages here. Up untill the October Revolution Tsakhkadzor used to be the best summer recreation residence of Yerevan governmental officials.
In the Soviet years Tsakhkadzor preserved and developed its traditions of a tourist town. Here were constructed about two dozens of summer pioneer camps, approximately a dozen of rest houses were thousands of people from all over our Republic as well as different parts of the Soviet Union spent their summer holidays. Various conferences and scientific congresses were held in Tsakhkadzor, making it popular and well-known from that perspective as well.
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