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16 Aug 1957, East Berlin, East Germany --- Big Show for Departing Soviet Leaders. East Berlin, East Germany: East German officials put on a gigantic rally in Marx-Engels Platz (the Lustgarten before Communists took over East Berlin), to speed home the departing Soviet delegation headed by party boss Nikita S. Khrushchev and Anastas I. Mikoyan, a Soviet deputy premier. Photo left: As hundreds of thousands of East Germans were marched through the square, holding hands as a sign of solidarity, were from left: Otto Grotewohl, premier of East Germany; Walter Ulbrict, East German Communist Party head; Khrushchev, and Mikoyan. Photo center: Older workers carry placards with pictures of Mikoyan (left) and Khrushchev (right) during the farewell demonstration. Photo right: Ulbricht, speaking during the outdoor rally, praised his friend Khrushchev before the farewell rally, a Soviet-East German accord was s --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
Armenia
Noravank (Armenian: Նորավանք, meaning new monastery) is a 13th century Armenian Apostolic Church monastery, located 122 km from Yerevan in a narrow gorge made by the Darichay river, nearby the city of Yeghegnadzor, Armenia. The gorge is known for its tall, sheer, brick-red cliffs, directly across from the monastery. The monastery is best known for its two-storey S. Astvatsatsin church, which grants access to the second floor by way of narrow stones jutting out from the face of building. The monastery is sometimes called Amaghu-Noravank, Amaghu being the name of a small recently destroyed village above the canyon, in order to distinguish it from Bgheno-Noravank, near Goris. In the 13th–14th centuries the monastery became a residence of Syunik's bishops and, consequently. a major religious and, later, cultural center of Armenia closely connected with many of the local seats of learning, especially with Gladzor's famed university and library.
Armenia
The Khor Virap ( meaning deep dungeon) monastery is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Armenia. Its location, near the closest point to Mount Ararat within Armenian borders, offers a spectacular view of the mountain, the national symbol of Armenia.
It is also significant as being the place of Gregory the Illuminator's 13-year imprisonment, after which Gregory, by converting the King Trdat III to Christianity in the year 301, made Armenia the first country to adopt Christianity as its official religion.
Armenia
Lori is one of the provinces (marz) of Armenia. It is in the north of the country, bordering Georgia
