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Tashir ((アルメニア語:Տաշիր)), is a town located in Lori Province of Armenia. It is located 42 km north of the provincial centre Vanadzor, in a valley on the Stepanavan-Tbilisi highway, at a height of 1,500 metres above sea level.〔(Our Town )〕 As of the 2011 census, the population of the town is 7,773. Tashir was known as Vorontsovka under the Russian rule, and Kalinino during the Soviet period. ==History and geography== The town was established in 1844 by Russians who had arrived to the region from the Russian Empire, mainly from the region of Saratov. The newly established settlement was called ''Vorontsovka'' after the Viceroy of the Caucasus Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov.〔(History of Armenia )〕 In 1935, during the Soviet rule, the settlement was renamed ''Kalinino'' after the Russian Bolshevik revolutionary leader Mikhail Kalinin and was called. In 1961, Kalino was granted the statues of a town-settlement. In 1983, it became a town. With the independence of Armenia in 1991, the town was renamed Tashir after the historic ''Tashir canton'' of Gugark, the 13th province of Greater Armenia. In 1886, the population of Tashir was 2,284. In 1897 it became 3,076. Between 1920 and 1960 the population was around 4,500, a majority of whom were Russians. Until 1989 there were also Azerbaijanis in the town who migrated to Azerbaijan as a result of the Nagorno-Karabakh war. At an elevation of 1500 metres, Tashir has mild temperatures, with an average temperature of -5 in January and 19 in July. The annual precipitation level is 420 mm. The town is surrounded by black prairies, Alpine meadows and many marshes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tashir」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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