Zoological and Botanical Garden. Sport Football is the most popular sport in Hrazdan. FC Shinarar was the football club who represented the town during the Soviet years. The municipal stadium of Hrazdan was their home venue. However, the club was dissolved in 1992 due to financial difficulties. Field hockey is also popular in the town. Hrazdan is home to the only field hockey venue of Armenia, with a capacity of 1,500 seats. Hrazdan Hockey Club occasionally represents Armenia in several regional and international tournaments. The Soviet-Armenian player and 1980 Olympic bronze medalist Sos Hayrapetyan played for the club between 1988 and 1992. Notable people born in Hrazdan Mishik Kazaryan (1948-2020), world-known Russian-Armenian physicist specialising in laser physics and optics, the winner of the State Prize of the USSR in the field of science and technology (1980), foreign member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, member of the A.M.Prokhorov Academy of Engineering Sciences, a creator of the sell-heating cooper vapor laser - the brightest repetitively pulsed laser in the visible region of the spectrum. Armen Nazaryan (1982-), Armenian judoka See also Hrazdan River References External links Hrazdan city website Makravank Monastery Hrazdan TV Populated places in Kotayk Province Erivan Governorate