On the eve of World War I , there were about 9,523 Armenians ( 1,300 houses ) and 6,774 Turks living in the town of Arapgir near Malatya ( modern-day Turkey ) . After the 1915 Armenian Genocide , most of the Armenian population of Arapgir was either killed or deported . In 1922 the 800 survived Armenians of Arapgir found refuge in Soviet Armenia . Consequently , Arabkir District was officially founded as a settlement north of the Yerevan city centre on November 29 , 1925 , to become the new home of the genocide survivors of Arapgir
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Arabkir District