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Leninakan

British  
/ lɪninaˈkan /

noun

  1. the former name (1925–91) of Kumayri

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Nairy, a builder from Leninakan, Armenia, said he had been trapped in Karabakh since December by the blockade.

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Shortly before our arrival, a Soviet transport plane carrying relief workers to Leninakan, some 60 miles north of Yerevan, crashed.

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More survivors had arrived from Leninakan, their clothing still caked with dried mud.

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A bespectacled economist who told of digging out one lone survivor from among 48 corpses in a Leninakan classroom.

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On Friday Moscow suddenly reversed itself after dogged rescuers miraculously pulled out of the debris 21 more people, one in Spitak and the rest in Leninakan, who by then had been buried alive for more than a week.

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