page_title: Hrazdan
section_title: Population
hierarchical_section_title: Hrazdan / Demographics / Population
caption_attribution_description: English: Hrazdan city
context_page_description: Hrazdan, is a town and urban municipal community in Armenia serving as the administrative centre of Kotayk Province, located 45 kilometres northeast of the capital Yerevan. As of the 2011 census, the population of the town is 41,875. It has lost a significant number of inhabitants since the 1989 census reported 59,000 people.
  During the Soviet period, Hrazdan was one of the highly industrialized centres of the Armenian SSR.
  The prelacy of the Diocese of Kotayk of the Armenian Apostolic Church is headquartered in Hrazdan.
context_section_description: The residents of Hrazdan are originally from the regions of Sasun, Kars and Mush of Western Armenia, and the regions of Maku, Salmast and Khoy of present-day Iran, who arrived in Soviet Armenia between 1926-29. During the repatriation process, citizens from other regions of Armenia and Armenians from Diaspora were also resettled in Hrazdan.
  Here is the population timeline of Hrazdan since 1959:
caption: Andranik Avenue at the Vanatur district
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