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Life in Salmast Villages

Schools - Students & Teachers

Graduation group photo at Haftvan Village School, Samast, May 1, 1946

Community public meeting at "Haftvan Village School" ("Afshin" or "Avak Avakian School"), ca 1940's

Graduation group  photo at Haftvan Village School, May 1, 1931. The photo was later  restored by Photo S. (Sero) Zakarian in 1956. (Haftvan Village School,  Salmast.)

"Avet Varzhapet School" mixed gender Armenian school in Haftvan, 1903 or 1909.

1 - Avet Arakelian "Varzhapet"; 2 - Nrankhat "Voski" Arakelian  3 - Satenik; 4 - Ghasab (butcher) Armenak's Wife; 5 - Almast Khalatian; 6 - Mkrtich Babloian, Avet's wife, also teacher;  7 - Mahi Babloian  (Budaghian)

Haftvan's old school in 1905.

"When  Mnatsakan Babloian returned to Haftvan after years of forced exile in  Krasnodar, Russia, he found this damaged photograph in the ruins of his  ancentral home."

"Sahak  Khudikian's Orphans", orphans under Mr. Khudikian's sponsorship,  photographed in front of the church in 1945, Ten year old Seroj Zakarian  is in the group. ​

SARNA co-ed school, 1942

Mahlam, Co-ed school, 1942.

Haftvan School

Source: RAA book on Salmast, 2019

Community Groups

Haftvana, Youth Club, 1942

Industries

Cheese making plant in Shahpur, Salmast.


Cheese blocks are being hermetically sealed with red wax.

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