TAMANIAN ANNEX OF NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ARMENIA TO BE REPAIRED WITH
FUNDS OF 2008 RA STATE BUDGET
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 7, NOYAN TAPAN. The Tamanian annex of the National
Library of Armenia will be repaired with the funds of the 2008 RA state
budget. As Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by David Sargsian,
the Director of the National Library of Armenia, the repairs estimate
was made up as early as in 2005, but due to the growth in prices for
building materials in the past 1-2 years it is being reconsidered at
present. Nevertheless, 300m drams (nearly 968 thousand USD) has been
allocated from the state budget for the present.
According to D. Sargsian, the annex was built in 1939 and has not been
fundamentally repaired up to present. The Tamanian annex, according to
him, is one of the historic-architectural monuments of Yerevan. After
the repairs, library’s cultural, as well as incunabular and rare
literature funds will be placed in the annex. Besides, it is envisaged
to open a library museum with a permanent diplay in the annex, which
will be dedicated to the 500th anniversary of Armenian book’s
publishing.