Days Of Yerevan To Be Conducted In Moscow

Yerevan, September 6, Armenpress: As part of the Year of Armenia in Russia “Days of Yerevan” will be held in Moscow from September 9 to 11. A delegation headed by the Yerevan mayor Yervand Zakharian will leave for Moscow to participate in the event.

   David Gevorgian, the head of the foreign ties department at the Yerevan municipality, told Armenpress that within the framework of the event a monument to great Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian will be erected in Moscow and the annual “Golden Pomegranate” festival will be held within the framework of which in the Red Square a fare of Armenian products will be organized. Besides, “Old Town through the Eyes of Contemporaries” photo-exhibition will be held.

   David Gevorgian said the Armenian “Navy Band” will give concert in Moscow. On September 11 the official meeting of the Yerevan and Moscow mayors Yervand Zakharian and Yuri Luzhkov is expected to take place.

   For supporting the organization of the Days of Yerevan the Armenian government has provided 125 million drams from its reserve fund.