CILICIA VESSEL ARRIVING IN NIZHNY NOVGOROD

PanARMENIAN.Net
03.08.2006 13:50 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Cilicia vessel, made in Armenia according to XIII
century drafts, is arriving in Nizhny Novgorod today. The ship is an
exact copy of the vessel, on which Cilician seafarers navigated in
XI-XIII centuries. Extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister
of the Armenian Embassy in Russia Ashot Manukyan is arriving to meet
the crew.

The vessel has followed the route Venice-Amsterdam, having doubled
Spain and France, visited Saint Petersburg. The voyage in Russia is
the final stage of the way, devoted to the official declaration of
the Year of Armenia in Russia.