SECOND VOLUME OF NATIONAL ATLAS OF ARMENIA TO BE PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 16, NOYAN TAPAN. The Geodesy and Cartography Center
of the Real Estate Land Survey State Committee attached to RA
Government will publish the second volume of the National Atlas of
Armenia. As Center Director Hovsep Petrosian informed the Noyan Tapan
correspondent, thematic maps concerning history, culture of Armenia and
Diaspora will find place in that volume. Thematic physical, population,
nature and economic maps of Armenia are involved in the first volume
published in December of the last year. In H.Petrosian’s words, the
first volume of the atlas was published with a print run of 2500
copies, 1000 copies from which were given to different departments. It
was mentioned that the English variant of the atlas will be published
by the profit got from sale of the 1500 copies. In H.Petrosian’s words,
works of forming the two volumes of the National Atlas started still in
2002. 43 mln drams (about 121 thousans dollars) were allocated from the
state budget for those works, and about 22 mln drams were given for
publication. It was also mentioned that the atlas of Armenia was for
the last time published in 1961.