Musayelyan, Shirak

40°59′34″N 43°56′20″E

Musayelyan
Մուսայելյան
Musayelyan is located in Armenia
Musayelyan
Musayelyan
Musayelyan is located in Shirak
Musayelyan
Musayelyan
Coordinates: 40°59′34″N 43°56′20″E
CountryArmenia
ProvinceShirak
MunicipalityAshotsk
Population
 (2010)
 • Total357[1]
Time zoneUTC+4
 • Summer (DST)UTC+5

Musayelyan (Armenian: Մուսայելյան) is a village in the Ashotsk Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. The St. Trdat church built in 1896 is located in the village.[2]

Etymology

The village was previously known as Bozekhush[3] (Azerbaijani: Bozyokuş;[4] Russian: Боз-Ехуш;[5] Armenian: Բոզյոխուշ[6]). The village was later renamed after Bolshevik captain Sargis Musayelyan[4] who committed his troops and the armoured train Vardan Zoravar (Armenian: Վարդան Զորավար, lit. 'General Vardan') to the May Uprising against the Dashnak government of Armenia in Aleksandropol (Gyumri)—He was imprisoned for several months until the Red Army executed two notable Dashnaks in Zangezur, thus prompting his execution in retaliation.[7]

Economy

The population engages in animal husbandry, with the cultivation of grain and fodder crops.[2]

Demographics

The population of the village since 1873 is as follows:[6]

Year Population Note
1873 274 100% Armenian
1886 326
1897 366 100% Armenian Apostolic
1908 450
1914 555 Mainly Armenian. Also recorded as 495
1916 560
1919 600 Mainly Armenian
1922 254 100% Armenian
1926 258
1931 386
1939[2] 512
1959[2] 469
1970[2] 442
1979[2] 408
2001[2] 386
2004[2] 395
2010[1] 357

References
  1. 2010 census (Shirak marz) armstat.am
  2. Հայաստանի Հանրապետության բնակավայրերի բառարան [Republic of Armenia settlements dictionary] (PDF) (in Armenian). Yerevan: Cadastre Committee of the Republic of Armenia. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2018.
  3. Bournoutian, George A. (2018). Armenia and Imperial Decline: The Yerevan Province, 1900–1914. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-06260-2. OCLC 1037283914.
  4. Nişanyan, Sevan. "Musayelyan". Index Anatolicus (in Turkish). Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  5. Кавказский календарь на 1910 год [Caucasian calendar for 1910] (in Russian) (65th ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1910. Archived from the original on 15 March 2022.
  6. Korkotyan, Zaven (1932). Խորհրդային Հայաստանի բնակչությունը վերջին հարյուրամյակում (1831-1931) [The population of Soviet Armenia in the last century (1831–1931)] (PDF) (in Armenian). Yerevan: Pethrat. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2022.
  7. Hovannisian, Richard G. (1996a). The Republic of Armenia: From London to Sèvres, February–August 1920. Vol. 3. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520088030.


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