PARTIAL REPAIRS DONE AT "EREBUNI" PRESERVE-MUSEUM WITH 7 MILLION DRAMS ALLOCATED FROM STATE BUDGET

Noyan Tapan
April 10, 2008

YEREVAN, APRIL 10, NOYAN TAPAN. Partial repair work is underway
at Erebuni historical-acheological preserve-museum with 7 million
drams (about 22 thousand USD) allocated from the RA state budget. In
particular, the passage, lavatory, electric power lines of the fortress
are being repaired, and it is envisaged to build a new water-pipe. The
director of the preserve-museum Ashot Piliposian told NT correspondent
that the design of repairs of the stronghold’s wall is being done now.

According to him, the repair work is a large-scale one and will be
completed in 1-2 years. Besides, improvement of the preserve will start
soon with the participation of students of the Faculty of History of
Yerevan State University.

A. Piliposian said that electromagnetic examination of the town
district of the fortress will start in late April in order to find
out if there are any undergroun structures in this section, and if so,
how they are arranged. In his words, no excavations have been carried
out in this site so the research will allow to determine the section
of the fortress where excavatio can be done.