LECTURE-ROOM NAMED AFTER PERISHED STUDENT-FREEDOM-FIGHTERS OPENED AND THAT OF NATIONAL HERO TATUL KRPEYAN REOPENED IN YSU

Noyan Tapan
Nov 16, 2007

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 16, NOYAN TAPAN. Lecture-rooms named after two heroes
of Artsakh liberation fight were opened simultaneously on November 16
at Yerevan State University. Two lecture-rooms of the economic faculty
were named after perished freedom-fighters-students of the faculty,
Vachagan Avakimov and Furman Gevorgian.

"The number of hero-students of the University is 26. Now 10
lecture-rooms of our University have been named after them, and we will
open another three by the end of the year. We, representatives of the
University, are happy that once we had an honor to walk side-by-side
with those heroes in these corridors," YSU Rector Aram Simonian
said. According to the Rector, this ceremony is an occasion for the
perished freedom-fighters’ friends to tell their memories about them.

Vasak Toroyan, a lecturer at the YSU Economic Faculty, shared his
memories about his student, Vachagan Avakimov mentioning that "Vache
never sat idly in the battlefield. When he came back from there, he
wrote articles. He was very shy, when he came to the University he
used to stand at the chair’s door and waited for me to come out to see
me. We had arranged that he was to continue his education in Leningrad,
but he refused categorically saying that he will never leave Armenia."

A lecture-room after RA national hero Tatul Krpeyan was also opened
the same day at the University’s history faculty, where his bust was
placed at last.

According to Vahe Sargsian, the Chairman of the ARFD Nikol Aghbalian
student union, national hero Tatul Krpeyan’s bust should have been
unveiled properly. "However, the bust donated by us was put in the
lecture-room as property, and today not its unveiling ceremony but the
lecture-room’s reopening is being held." According to him, in another
respect it became a good occasion for repairing the lecture-room. A
computer, a TV set, a video recorder was placed there, films were
shown, meetings were held there formerly.