Beniamin

{{Infobox settlement | official_name = Beniamin | native_name = Բենիամին | image_skyline = Beniamin 32.JPG | pushpin_map = Armenia#Shirak | mapsize = 150px | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Armenia | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = Shirak | subdivision_type2 = Municipality | subdivision_name2 = Akhuryan | established_date = 1828 | population_as_of = 2011 | population_total = 724<ref name="citypopulation.de">{{cite web|url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/armenia/shirak/|title=Shirak (Armenia): Towns and Villages in Municipalities|website=www.citypopulation.de|access-date=2025-06-19}}</ref> | utc_offset = +4 | utc_offset_DST = +5 | coordinates = {{coord|40|41|N|43|51|E|region:AM|display=inline,title}} | elevation_m = 1540 | footnotes = {{GEOnet2|32FA881E72353774E0440003BA962ED3}} | native_name_lang = hy | other_name = Chalovkhan }} '''Beniamin''' ({{langx|hy|Բենիամին}}) is a village in the Akhuryan Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. The town was renamed in 1945 in honor of Beniamin Galstian, a World War II general and native of the town.<ref>{{Cite Rediscovering Armenia}}</ref> According to Ghevont Alishan, the old name of the village is "Chlofkhan or Chalovkhan", and was founded in 1828-1830 in the territory of the historical city of Draskhanakert.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Alishan |first=Ghevont |title=Shirak |year=1881 |location=Venice |language=hy}}</ref> The Statistical Committee of Armenia reported its population was 745 in 2010,<ref>{{ARMSTATdata|43}}</ref> up from 702 at the 2001 census.<ref>{{ArmenianCensus|194}}</ref>

==Demographics== {{Historical populations |1897|561 |1926|442 |1939|604 |1959|546 |1970|531 |1979|500 |1989|751 |2001|702 |2011|724 |align=none|percentages=pagr|graph-pos=bottom|source=<ref>{{Cite Republic of Armenia Settlements Dictionary}}</ref>}}

== Historical and cultural structures == "Tukh Manuk" chapel and Zham church are located in Beniamin.<ref>{{Cite web |last=hushardzantest |title=ԲԵՆԻԱՄԻՆ |url=https://hushardzan.am/archives/10007 |access-date=2022-08-20 |website=Պատմամշակութային արգելոց-թանգարանների և պատմական միջավայրի պահպանության ծառայության |language=am-AM}}</ref>

== Education == There is a school in the village, where, in addition to the school curriculum, children are involved in extracurricular programs: art and craft groups, debate club, healthy lifestyle seminars.

With the efforts of the Children of Armenia Fund, trainings are being carried out for local medical workers.

== Gallery == <gallery> File:Beniamin 31.JPG|alt="Tukh Manuk" chapel in Beniamin village of Armenia|"Tukh Manuk" chapel File:Beniamin 19.JPG|alt=Monument in the honor of Armenians who fought in the Great Patriotic War, Beniamin, Armenia|Monument in the honor of Armenians who fought in the Great Patriotic War File:Beniamin 20.JPG|alt=Monument in the honor of Armenians who fought in the Great Patriotic War, Beniamin, Armenia|Monument in the honor of Armenians who fought in the Great Patriotic War File:Beniamin 22.JPG|alt=Monument to General Major Benjamin Hovhannes Galstyan, Hero of the Soviet Union, Beniamin, Armenia|Monument to General Major Benjamin Hovhannes Galstyan, Hero of the Soviet Union File:Beniamin 23.JPG|alt=Beniamin school, Armenia|Beniamin school File:Beniamin 29.JPG|alt=Beniamin church (Zham), 1871, Armenia|Beniamin church (Zham), 1871 </gallery>

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Category:Communities in Shirak Province Category:Populated places in Shirak Province