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upcoming event with narek Gharibyan
more information to follow
Save the Date: Thursday, June 13, 2024
Salmast Heritage Association (SHA), in collaboration with Armenian Engineers and Scientists of America (AESA), will honor a scientist with Salmast ancestry, Narek Gharibyan, Ph.D. in Radiochemistry at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), for his contributions to the international research teams that confirmed the discovery of Element 117 and its inclusion on Mendeleev's Periodic Table.
Learn more about Narek Gharibyan HERE.
SHA Current projects
Renovation and preservation of St. Gevork Church, Haftvan
Linguistics Professor Bert Vaux of Cambridge University, UK, continues to research and document findings on the dialect of Salmast
A bilingual English/Persian book featuring 204 pages with maps and illustrations, entitled “Greater Salmas District Studies and Documents"
SHA Accomplishments
Sponsoring and/or producing 5 academic books about Salmast and Salmastetsis
3-D reconstruction of Salmast monuments for preservation
International Salmast Conference, Yerevan State University, September 2019
About salmast: Geography - points of interest
Apple Orchard
Gharniyarukh Mountain, over 6000ft high
Poplar Tree Trail
Urmia Lake
Urartu Cave
Zolma/ Dilman River
About Salmast: history
Harvard research: Salmastetsi genes migrated all the way to Ireland
Bull shaped tombstone in Sarna/Salmast, 9th to 6th Century BC
Vartan Mamikonian, Hero of the battle of Avarayr, 451 AD.
Resting site in Salmast
Haftvan St. George Church,
1643
About Salmast: Prominent Salmastetsis
Alexandra Avakian, National Geographic Photographer
Sevana Salmasi,
Austrian/Armenian opera singer
Armen Hakhnazarian,
Doctor of Architecture and technical sciences, Founder of Research on Armenian Architecture, 1982
Avetis Aharonian,
Chairman, Armenia's 1st Parliament,
co-signer of the Peace Treaty of Sevres, 1920
Mkhitar Heratsi,
Armenia's 1st Physician
Hakob Melik Hakobian, otherwise known by his pen name Raffi,
Armenian author, a prominent figure of 19th-century Armenian literature
About Salmast: Traditions
Holy pilgrimage sites
Week-long village wedding celebrations
Khorats Panir, Buried Cheese
Cheese production in Shahpur, Salmast