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Girls with lambs in “Orphan City,” an enormous orphan refugee camp of more than 30,000 children managed by Near East Relief in Alexandropol (modern Gyumri, formerly Leninakan), Armenia, circa 1920.

“"Leninagone" is dedicated to all of the children who survived the devastating earthquake that hit my home town Gyumri (Soviet name: Leninakan) on December 7, 1988. I come from the generation of children whose lives were directly affected by this tragic event and the collapse of the Soviet Union three years later. This video footage is from my second grade elementary school end-of-the-year performance in 1995, which somebody happened to record on VHS tape. This is school N. 10, which at the time was a temporary school that the children attended while the real building was being constructed. When I found this tape in my parents' video archives, I felt that this footage was the visual reflections of what I felt when I wrote the song "Leninagone." The video portrays the struggle and the hope of all the generations that lived through this apocalyptic time.     The footage on this video is taken by somebody from the audience, possibly by a parent.  —Tigran Hamasyan” You could no except something less touching and beautiful by piano master Tigran Hamasyan A very deep message in this video Powerful...

Armenian children lined up by age in “Orphan City,” an enormous orphan refugee camp of more than 30,000 children managed by Near East Relief in Alexandropol (modern Gyumri, formerly Leninakan), Armenia, 1922.

Girls in the garden at “Orphan City,” an enormous orphan refugee camp of more than 30,000 children managed by Near East Relief in Alexandropol (modern Gyumri, formerly Leninakan), Armenia, circa 1920.

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