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December 8, 2013 Sunday 04:16 AM GMT+4
About 4,500 families in Armenia's Gyumri live badly 25 years after Spitak quake
GYUMRI (Armenia) December 8
- A quarter of the century after a disastrous Spitak earthquake about
4,500 families, who lost their housing in the Armenian city of Gyumri
as a result of the earthquake, continue to live in tiny wooden and
metallic dwellings, which lack basic conveniences. This statistical
data was made public on Saturday during a visit in the Armenian city
by members of the Friendship Group with Armenia from the French
National Assembly lower house of parliament headed by Vice-President
of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Rene
Rouquet.
After the breakup of the Soviet Union many construction organisations
from different Soviet republics have gradually wrapped up their
activity in the natural disaster zone that resulted in a sharp decline
of housing rented in the area.
Along with housing construction, the unemployment remains the most
pressing problem in the districts affected in the calamity. "Over
total unemployment Gyumri turned in a zone of misery from the natural
disaster zone," the newspaper Voice of Armenia reported on Saturday.
The earthquake has destroyed the industrial potential of the region
and then the country's economy slumped.
On December 7, 1988, strong underground tremors measuring ten points
on the 12-point scale have destroyed at 11:41 local time (10:41Moscow
time) almost the whole northern part of the Caucasian republic for
half a minute. According to official reports, an earthquake hitting
the territory with the population of about one million people who have
made one third of republican residents claimed more than 25,000 lives,
left about 19,000 people disabled and left 530,000 people homeless.
The city of Spitak turned out to be in the epicentre of the earthquake
and was ruined to ashes. Along with Spitak and neighbouring villages
the natural disaster has destroyed 21 towns and settlements, 324
villages and has destroyed 80 percent of housing, social and
production facilities in the second largest Armenian city, Leninakan
(now it is named Gyumri). The earthquake has eliminated about 40
percent of industrial potential in the republic.
December 8, 2013 Sunday 04:16 AM GMT+4
About 4,500 families in Armenia's Gyumri live badly 25 years after Spitak quake
GYUMRI (Armenia) December 8
- A quarter of the century after a disastrous Spitak earthquake about
4,500 families, who lost their housing in the Armenian city of Gyumri
as a result of the earthquake, continue to live in tiny wooden and
metallic dwellings, which lack basic conveniences. This statistical
data was made public on Saturday during a visit in the Armenian city
by members of the Friendship Group with Armenia from the French
National Assembly lower house of parliament headed by Vice-President
of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Rene
Rouquet.
After the breakup of the Soviet Union many construction organisations
from different Soviet republics have gradually wrapped up their
activity in the natural disaster zone that resulted in a sharp decline
of housing rented in the area.
Along with housing construction, the unemployment remains the most
pressing problem in the districts affected in the calamity. "Over
total unemployment Gyumri turned in a zone of misery from the natural
disaster zone," the newspaper Voice of Armenia reported on Saturday.
The earthquake has destroyed the industrial potential of the region
and then the country's economy slumped.
On December 7, 1988, strong underground tremors measuring ten points
on the 12-point scale have destroyed at 11:41 local time (10:41Moscow
time) almost the whole northern part of the Caucasian republic for
half a minute. According to official reports, an earthquake hitting
the territory with the population of about one million people who have
made one third of republican residents claimed more than 25,000 lives,
left about 19,000 people disabled and left 530,000 people homeless.
The city of Spitak turned out to be in the epicentre of the earthquake
and was ruined to ashes. Along with Spitak and neighbouring villages
the natural disaster has destroyed 21 towns and settlements, 324
villages and has destroyed 80 percent of housing, social and
production facilities in the second largest Armenian city, Leninakan
(now it is named Gyumri). The earthquake has eliminated about 40
percent of industrial potential in the republic.