Lernagyugh. (Screenshot: CivilNet) By Lia Avagyan Hrant Minasyan has given himself a title. “I call myself the last resident of a dying village,” he says. HIs village, Lernagyugh, sits nearly 2,000 meters (6,500 feet) above sea level, in a highland valley about 15 kilometers (9 miles) northeast of Gyumri, in Armenia’s Shirak province. Fields of hay roll out toward the surrounding hills. The village is reached by a dirt road that branches off the main highway at the neighboring village of Torosgyugh.
