AN EVENING DEDICATED TO GRIGOR GURZADYAN IN "HAYART"

Aysor
April 1 2010
Armenia

On April 2 in the "HayART" cultural center will take place an event
dedicated to Grigor Gurzadyan, academician, painter, writer and
astrophysicist.

On the evening around 60 works of Gurzadyan will be presented. There
will be introduced also the books "The space in the palm", "A love
story", "A cosmic catastrophe", "Thoughts… thoughts…", "My son
on the Top of Ararat", "The mystery of Kakavaberd", will also be
presented the film "The space in the palm".

As the press service of the "HayART" cultural center told to Aysor.am
film "The space in the palm" was shot by Rita Sharoyan who is the
director of the "HayART" culyural center and the auther of many
documentary films. The film lasts for 35 minutes.

The source also informed that "The space in the palm" film is divided
into several subtitles; it has been shot based on the archive materials
of Rita Sharoyan and Grigor Gurzadyan. Exceptional materials have
been used form Moscow. There are also some episodes showing the
establishment of "Orion". The meetings, discussions, debates are
presented in the film.

Born in October 15, 1922 in Baghdad, he became the postgraduate of
Victor Hambartsumian, who had just moved to Armenia.

Being in Hambartsumian’s founding team of Byurakan Observatory, he
later headed a Laboratory, in 1960s became deputy director of the
Observatory for space research.

Then he moved to design space orbital observatories. The highlight
was Orion 2 Space Observatory. It was in April, 1971, when the first
space station Salyut 1 carried into orbit Orion 1 Space Observatory,
the first space telescope with an objective prism.