Ttujur, Gegharkunik

Ttujur
Թթուջուր
View of Ttujur, 2010.
Ttujur
Թթուջուր
Coordinates:
Country Armenia
Marz (Province) Gegharkunik
Population (2008)
 • Total 1,137
Time zone   (UTC+4)
 • Summer (DST)   (UTC+5)

Ttujur (Armenian: Թթուջուր, also Romanized as T’t’ujur, Tytudzhur, Tudzhur, and Ttudzhur) is a small town in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia. The town has the Kotrats church and a nearby ruined settlement of Tsak Kar.

On May 6, 2010, the "Monument of Glory and Immortality" was erected in the village dedicated to the German-Soviet War, where 61 Armenians form Ttujur were killed during the World War II. The ceremony was conducted within the frames of the 65th anniversary of the Soviet victory over the Nazi Germans. The inauguration ceremony was attended by the Russian ambassador to Armenia.[1]

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