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The
first SW exit from Gyumri leads to Gharibjanian
(Gharakilisa, then Alexandrovka, renamed in 1935 in honor of
Bagrat Gharibjanian, 1890-1920, a Bolshevik revolutionary
imprisoned by the Dashnaks after the failed May uprising and
later shot in reprisal for
the execution
of two
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Between
Gharibjanian and Akhurik, the Akhurian
Railroad Station has a
special facility, completed just before the collapse of the USSR
and never used, for lifting train cars off their wheels and
changing the undercarriage from Soviet to European gauge, to
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