DESIGNERS OF MEMORIAL TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS AWARDED GOLD MEDALS

PanARMENIAN.Net
27.11.2007 18:42 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ During From Memory to Memorialization international
scientific conference dedicated to 40th anniversary of the Memorial
to the Armenian Genocide victims, Director of the Museum-Institute
of Armenian Genocide Hayk Demoyan handed gold medals to co-authors
of the project – architect Sashur Kalashian and Artur Tarkhanyan
(posthumously), former Director of the Museum-Institute, academician
Lavrenty Barseghyan and guide Astghik Yedigaryan, who has worked in
the Museum for 12 years.

When addressing the attendees architect Kalashian said that
nationwide love for the Memorial is explained by its emotionality
and sincerity. "The problem was to find the money essential for the
construction of a monument with a "forbidden subject," he said adding
that the project cost 600 thousand soviet rubles.

"We could not imagine that great number of people will come to our
monument every year to commemorate the Armenian Genocide victims,"
he said, Novosti Armenia reports.