View of the northern part of Alexandropol

A postcard with the Russian caption “Alexandropol. General view of the northern part of the city”. It shows one- and two-storey stone houses, flat roofs and a street, with carts and piles of stones in the foreground. Mountains rise in the distance.

In 1837 Gyumri was renamed Alexandropol. In the same year a new fortress was founded near the old one; it contained a church dedicated to the martyr Alexander of Rome (4th century).