The Armenian State Statistical Committee reports Alaverdi is the most polluted city in all of Armenia.

The city is located in the northeast of the northern Lori region, 167 kilometers from Yerevan. Its population is 16,600 people.

Although the city is located inside the gorge of the Debed river, the the dustiness indicator here exceeds the norm by 1.8 times.

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Sulfur dioxide is one of the main pollutant gases in the earth’s atmosphere – in Alaverdi, it is twice was high as normal.