FESTIVAL OF APRICOT TO OPEN ON JULY 9 IN MOSCOW HERMITAGE GARDEN WITHIN
FRAMEWORK OF YEAR OF ARMENIA IN RUSSIA
YEREVAN, JUNE 8, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Apricot’s Festival
will open on July 9 in the Moscow Hermitage Garden within the
framework of the Year of Armenia in Russia. During the festival,
treating of Armenian apricot will be organized as well as a concert of
duduk (Armenian national pipe made of apricot-tree wood) will be
held. RA President’s Assistant Vigen Sargsian informed the Noyan Tapan
correspondent about it.
According to him, various events will be held in Russia till the end
of the year. An exhibition of children’s paintings on the themes of
the Bible and “Sasna Tsrer” epos will open at the Fine Arts Center of
the Moscow Pushkin Museum in July and August as well as an exhibition
of modern Armenian painters of Moscow will be presented.
Concerts of the “Hover” choir, RA People’s Artist Barsegh Tumanian
will take place in middle of June within the framework of the “White
Nights” festival in Saint Petersburg. Days of Armenian theater will be
organized in Moscow in September in which the Yerevan Hrachia
Ghaplanian Dramatic, Gabriel Sundukian National Academic and
Konstantin Stanislavski Russian Theaters will participate.
Besides cultural events, events of educational, economic and other
spheres will also be held within the framework of the Year of Armenia
in Russia.
According to V.Sargsian, the solemn closing ceremony of the Year of
Armenia in Russia will be held in November or December, which will
probably be held in one of palaces of Saint Petersburg.
“Those events are important to that extent that Russian
representatives of especially younger generation have possibility to
get acquainted with the Armenian culture and form an idea about the
Armenian people having history of milleniums,” Vigen Sargsian
mentioned.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
