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Vardenis

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Vardenis 

(until 1969, Basargechar), an urban-type settlement, administrative center of Vardenis Raion, Armenian SSR. Situated to the east of Lake Sevan, 183 km from Yerevan. Population, 10,200 (1969). A cheese plant, a brewery, and a panel-making plant are located there. There is also a medical school. Gold is mined in the raion from the Zodskoe deposit.


Vardenis 

a mountain range in the Armenian Highlands, (Armenian SSR), bordering on the Sevan depression to the south. Length, about 60 km; maximum elevation, 3,522 m (Mount Vardenis). The Vardenis Mountain Range is composed chiefly of basalt and andesite. Xerophyte mountain steppe vegetation covers the slopes; there are alpine meadows higher up.



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Presently, three projects are being considered, he said adding the first supposes departure from Yeraskh, the second from Vardenis and the third from Gagarin, extending for 443, 449 and 397 km respectively.
It is bounded by the Vardenis and Geghama ridges in the north, by the Azat river in the northwest and by plain semi-deserts and croplands of the Ararat Valley in the west.
The Sotksky ore deposit (Zod Mine) in the Vardenis region in eastern Armenia is one of the oldest known working gold mines in the world, dating to the 2nd millennium B.
 
 
 
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