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A poster released by the AGBU to promote a repatriation fund-raising drive

AGBU had various humanitarian and infrastructure projects in early Soviet Armenia, including the building of the Nubarashen district which is now a suburb of Yerevan, Armenia.

Also during the period about helped thousands of Armenians from around the world settle in Soviet Armenia in what is known in Armenian as the nerkaght.

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items are from 14 Apr 2008.

A tragic scene in the streets of Yerevan in 1922

NER's Armenian orphans in Alexandropol in the early 1920’s

The letterhead of the office representing AGBU in Yerevan, 1930s

Parekordzagan (AGBU) Building in Yerevan, Armenian SSR

Photograph Melic Agamalian, 1926

Haygaz Karagueuzian

Building Nor Yevtogia in Soviet Armenia

Building Nor Yevtogia in Soviet Armenia

The Taruhi Agopian Center in Yerevan in the 1930s

Yerevan’s Marie Nubar Ophthalmological Clinic in the 1930’s

State University of Yerevan

Haygaz Karaguezian

Aved Sarkis Rabies Clinic

A garage in Nubarashen

Plan of Nubarashen settlement in Armenia by the architect Alexander Tamanian

“The Nubarachen of Tomorrow” 1927 engraving

Building Nubarashen

Building Nubarashen

View of Yerevan in the 1920s

The Chemshgadzak district of Nubarashen

A group of refugees from the Ottoman Empire settled in Nubarashen

The Habusiye district of Nubarashen

The Chemshgadzak district of Nubarachen

Schoolchildren in Nubarashen

Library and reading room in Nubarashen

Yerevan in 1930

A poster released by the AGBU to promote a repatriation fund-raising drive

A 1933 poster by the French Armenian painter Carzou

Armenian refugees embarking for Soviet Armenia in Piraeus in 1932

Armenian refugees aboard ship in the harbor of Piraeus, Greece in February 1932

Graduates of the Melkonian Institute in Piraeus

Armenian refugees embarking for Soviet Armenian in Piraeus in 1932

Two hundred fifty AGBU orphans leaving for the Soviet Armenia in 1925

Two hundred fifty AGBU orphans leaving for the Soviet Armenia in 1925

Repatriates being welcomed to Yerevan on arrival

A repatriated Armenian in the Dilijan sanatorium: propaganda photograph used to promote the "nerkaght"

propaganda photograph of young repatriates studying at the University of Yeravan

Alex Manoogian and his wife Marie being welcomed to Yerevan, in 1971

Migrant Armenian workers in route for Canada

A receipt issues to Vahe Antranigian, a French donor to the repatriation fund-raising campaign

The letterhead of the "repatriation" fund-raising committee, headed by Léon Guerdan

One of the first ships to take candidates for repatriation from Marseilles to Armenia leaves port

Boarding ship in Piraeus in 1932

Beginning of the transfer of refugees to Soviet Armenia in the port of Piraeus

Graduates of the Melkonian Institute in Cyrpus bound for Soviet Armenia

Louise Manoogian Simone in Yerevan shortly after the 7 December 1988 earthquake

Lukashin (Sargis Srapionian, 1883-1937)

Levon Pashalian

Virginie Aved Sarkis

Shahag Ter Kaprielian

Arshag Safradian

Levon Bey Hagopian

Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930)

Mikayel Papadjanian

H.H. Catholicos Vazken I shortly after his election in 1955

Dikran Tchamkerten

Léon Guerdan (1886-1952)

Arshag Tchobanian (1872-1954)

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