Gharibjanyan

40°44′46″N 43°47′49″E

Gharibjanyan Ղարիբջանյան
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Coordinates: 40°44′46″N 43°47′49″E
Country	Armenia
Province	Shirak
Municipality	Akhuryan
Elevation	1,470 m (4,820 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Total	1,055[1]
Time zone	UTC+4

Gharibjanyan (Armenian: Ղարիբջանյան), known as Aleksandrovka until 1935, is a village in the Akhuryan Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. The village was renamed in 1935 in honor of Bolshevik leader Bagrat Gharibjanyan, killed in 1920.^[2]

Demographics

The population of the village since 1908 is as follows:

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1908	202	—
1926	345	+3.02%
1939	539	+3.49%
1959	667	+1.07%
1970	674	+0.09%
1979	595	−1.38%
1989	954	+4.83%
2001	953	−0.01%
2011	1,055	+1.02%
Source: [3]