Word: leninakan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leninakan, once Alexandropol, Dr. Joseph Beach, Director of Near East Relief in the Caucasus, described the catastrophe, now thought to have caused 1,500 deaths and wrought $60,000,000 property damage. Said...
...hurricane of wind swept everything before it. ... Through the jet black night only the majestic contour of vast Alagoz, the volcanic mountain with its dome of eternal snow standing out like a beacon on the broad Leninakan Plain, could be perceived...
...verily believe that our small band of relief workers was spared so that we could rescue the 9,000 helpless Armenian orphans in Leninakan. The terrific seismic forces ceased temporarily, and we succeeded in reaching the Near East Relief orphanages...
...Socialist Republic of Armenia.* To the west Mount Ararat slumbered. To the east peasants watched their flocks in the valley of Araxes, allegedly the valley created "Eden" by Jehovah. Suddenly the earth's crust moved, opened a thousand cracks and fissures throughout the great plain of Alexandropol (now Leninakan). Whirling seething earth-masses hurtled and reeled. With a roar like that of thunder, many of the stone buildings of Leninakan crashed in ruins. All electric, gas, telephone and telegraph equipment were thrown out of commission. When communication was restored it was learned that the Near East Relief buildings...