The community is known for its medieval kahrezes (qanat), a system of underground water channels and intake facilities.

This currently functioning aqueduct is the most important historical monument of such type remaining from the medieval times in Armenia.

Part of the community were skillful craftsmen, especially smiths, tailors, carpenters, masons, mat weavers etc.

Green leafy plants are represented by araxian (Quercus araxina) and oriental oak (Q. macranthera), Georgian maple (Acer ibericum), as well as plane-tree, ash-tree, beech etc.

Shvanidzor and its vicinities are the only places in the South Caucasus, where 2 types of European redbud (Judas tree)- Cercis griffithii and С. siliquastrum.

The mammals living in the area include Caucasian bear (Ursus arctos syriacus), Bezoarian goat (Capra aegagrus aegagrus), Armenian mouflon (Ovis orientalis gmelinii), Persian leopard (Panthera pardus tullianus), as well as badger, lynx, wild boar, roe deer, which are listed in the Red Book.

Out of 66 species of birds listed in the Red Book, 15 can be met in Shvanidzor, which are Acciper brevipes, Circaetus gallicus, Aquila rapax orientalis, Aquila chrysaetos fulva, Gypaetus barbatus aereus, Gyps fulvus, Merops superciliosus persicus, Sylvia hortensis crassirostris, Oenanthe xanthoprimna chrysopygia, Monticola saxalitis, Luscinia svecica occidentalis, Remiz pendulinus menzbieri, and Parus lugubris.

Seven types of reptiles from the 11 in the Red Book can be met in Shvanidzor: Testudo graeca, Eumeces schneiderii, Mabuya aurata, Rhynchocalamus melanocephalus, Telescopus fallax ibericus, Zamenis hohenackeri, and Montivipera raddei.