NEARLY 100 ARMENIAN SUNDAY SCHOOLS FUNCTION IN RUSSIA

Noyan Tapan
Feb 13, 2008

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 13, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Nearly 100
Armenian Sunday schools function in different regions of the
Russian Federation. As Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by
the RA Ministry of Education and Science, the most part of Armenian
educational institutions is in the Krasnodar territory: only in the
town of Sochi Armenian lessons are organized in 16 schools. Teaching
of Armenian in the form of optional lessons is organized in a number
of schools of Novosibirsk.

Nine Armenian Sunday schools function in the Stavropol region. There
are two Armenian schools in the town of Rostov-on-Don, Rostov region,
but lessons of Armenian language are organized in three Russian
secondary schools. Besides, there are two study groups of Armenian
language.

In the Moscow region Armenian children go to the Armenian Sunday
school attached to the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in
Russian Federation, Pushkino’s and Ivanovo’s Erebuni Armenian
Sunday schools. Lessons of Armenian are also organized in Moscow
Mutli-Cultural Educational Complex, in the Luys cultural center, as
well as in some kindergartens. Lazarians’ Center of Armenian Education
of Saint Petersburg also does much work in teaching of Armenian.

Armenian educational institutions also function in the Saratov, Ryazan,
Voronezh, Volgograd, Omsk, Smolensk, Pemza, Krasnoyarsk, Kaliningrad,
Tyumen, Astrakhan regions. They are both Sunday schools and cultural
centers attached to the Armenian community or church.