THE PRIME MINISTER LAID FLOWERS IN THE PANTHEON ON VAHAN TERIAN’S BIRTH ANNIVERSARY
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
On Vahan Terian’s 125th birth anniversary, RA Prime Minister Tigran
Sargsyan laid a wreath at the great poet’s memorial in the Pantheon
after Komitas of Yerevan.
Said commemorative event just marks the start-up of a long series of
jubilee action organized by the government’s jubilee commission on
Vahan Terian’s 125th birth anniversary. The Prime Minister chairs this
commission which consists of scholars and top-ranking officials. The
planned jubilee events feature traditional Terian Days to be held at
the poet’s native village and Orenburg (Russian Federation), as well
as release of a jubilee issue of Grakan Tert periodical, expositions
and book fairs, nationwide contests between schools, publication of
Vahan Terian encyclopedia, establishment of Vahan Terian scholarship,
stamp release and so on.