7TH "HISTORICAL-CULTURAL HERITAGE OF SHIRAK" SYMPOSIUM STARTED
By Gegham Mkrtchian, translated by L.H

AZG Armenian Daily #193
23/10/2007

Culture

On October 19, the 7th "Historical-cultural heritage of Shirak"
symposium started in Gyumri. It coincided with the 10th anniversary
of the foundation and activities of the RA Academy of Sciences’
Armenian Armenological Research Center of Shirak.

Being the first and the only Armenological Center in Armenia,
founded in 1997, the center has its own contribution to Armenological
researches.

At the opening of the symposium and the ceremony of the 10th
anniversary of the Center RA NAS president, academician Radik
Martirosian, academician secretary of the Department of the Humanities
of the Academy Vladimir Barkhudarian, Directors of NAS Institutes of
History, Archeology and Ethnography, Art, Geophysics and Engineering
Seismology Ashot Melkonian, Pavel Avetisian, Ararat Aghasian, Sevada
Hovhannisian and others delivered their welcome speeches.

The three-day scientific symposium, where 24 scientific, educational
and cultural institutions of the republic participated, gathered
a large auditorium of historians, archeologists, philologists,
ethnographers, artists and sociologists. More than 70 reports were
presented.

The Symposium aimed at discovering the present level of the
ethnography, folklore, archeology, engineering, the old and the new
history, the philological and ethno-sociological researches of Shirak.

The participants also visited archeological places,
historical-engineering monuments, and also museums and galleries of
Gyumri in the framework of the symposium.