Gyumri

[ gyoom-ree, gyoom-ree ]

noun

1. a city in NW Armenia.

Example Sentences

It said around 200 protesters, gathered outside the base in the northern town of Gyumri, were demanding that Russian peacekeepers unblock the sole road - the Lachin Corridor - which links Armenia and the predominantly ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.

From Reuters

Larina was in her maths classroom in the Armenian city of Gyumri when the earthquake hit.

From BBC

The Armenian defence minister said in February that Yerevan had sought an expansion of the Russian military unit, based in Gyumri in the northwest, and the deployment of some Russian troops closer to Azerbaijan.

From Reuters

Russian peacekeeping troops are deployed in the enclave and, under a formal defence pact with Armenia, Russia has a fully-fledged military base in the city of Gyumri near the Turkish border with an estimated 3,000 troops.

From Reuters

Born on 25 January 1926 in Gyumri, in what was then Soviet Armenia, she moved with her family to Iran in the early 1930s.

From The Guardian