GARA GARAYEV IS NOT ARMENIAN COMPOSER, RUSSIAN HISTORIAN CONFESSES

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Aug 27 2007

Russian historian Kiril Tomov, who introduced Gara Garayev as Armenian
composer confessed his fault, APA’s Eastern Europe bureau reports.

Professor of California University, historian Tomov confessed his
mistake in the response to the protest letter of Azerbaijani Shahla
Aliguliyeva working for OXFA organization.

"I am grateful to you for your opinion about my book and revealing
my mistake. This is a mistake. Gara Garayev is not Armenian, he is
Azerbaijani composer. I will try to correct the mistake in the second
edition of the book," he said.

Gara Garayev is introduced as an Armenian composer in the scientific
work about the Soviet composers by Tomov and in the famous Britanika
Encyclopedia.