I learned with interest about the 1971 Bureaucan Conference in Armenia, where the world's leading astrophysicists came and what issues they discussed there.

A few weeks back I roamed ROT-54 in Armenia, a Soviet era Radio-Optical Telescope used for deep space research! Look it up, it's an incredibly odd and fascinating piece of Soviet astronomy. I'd never seen anything like it, and now it just sits there at the top of one of the mountains.