Tuesday, 9 February 2010
The Prime Minister laid flowers in the Pantheon on Vahan Terian’s birth anniversary
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.
