HOLIDAY CONCERTS ON CITY DAY IN YEREVAN ON OCT 10-11

ARKA
Oct 8, 2008

YEREVAN, October 8. /ARKA/. Concerts for the celebration of Yerevan’s
2,790th anniversary will take place in the capital on October 10-11,
said Mayor Yervand Zakharyan at a Wednesday parliamentarian sitting.

The city day has been annually celebrated since the city’s 2,750th
anniversary in 1968.

Gala night and concert will take place in National Academic Opera
and Ballet Theater after A. Spendariyan on October 10, and a holiday
concert will be organized at Hrazdan national stadium on October 11.

The city of Erebuni (later renamed Yerevan) was founded in the
south-east of the Armenian Highlands in 782 BC by king of Urartu
Argishti I. The foundation stone with a carved date of Yerevan’s
foundation is still kept in the Erebuni memorial fortress.

Yerevan was proclaimed the capital city of the First Armenian Republic
on May 28, 1918.