Sos Sargsyan

It is no accident that we met this great actor as recently he celebrated his 80th birthday anniversary. Mr. Sargsyan, you have done lots of things for the art of Armenia. It talks about your devotion to cinematography and theatre. Is there anything you didn’t manage to change or was ahead of your ability? Unfortunately, you can’t […]

Parajanov had inborn talent

“If I were to mention the best 50 films of the world the first would be Sergey Parajanov’s “The Color of Pomegranates”, mentioned Gevorg Gevorgyan, Director of Armenian National Cinema Center. Today is eminent film director Sergey Parajanov’s birthday: an artist who was banned to shoot films and whose works undergone Soviet censorship. G. Gevorgyan […]

Copper

In Ancient Greece copper and bronze were called “khalkos” from the root “khalk.” According to linguists, this corresponds to “Hayk,” the name the Armenians gave to their country. The names “Hayos,” and “Ayas” that were given to copper by the Indians, Iranians, Germans and other Indo-European nations, are also connected with the name of the […]

Yeghishe Charents

Nearly 73 years after his death the quality and the contemporary purchase of his poetry lives and make us think about. This year we’re going to celebrate the 113th anniversary of Yeghishe Charents (Yeghishe Soghomonyan) was born in Kars in 1897 to a family involved in the rug trade. He attended Armenian secondary school in […]

Metsamor

Metsamor, one of the ancient monuments of the Armenian Plateau, is situated in the enter  of the Ararat Valley, 30 kilometres west of Yerevan, not far from the spring of the River Metsamor. Excavations confirm that people settled in this valley with abundant water sources, hunting grounds and pastures seven thousand years ago. The Metsamor Castle was founded on a […]

David Gazazyan (1910 – 1968)

“Only a real dramaturge will reveal the organic feelings, which will make his works become valuable ones. And D. Gazazyan’s works are a proof of it” Konstantin Simonov David Abraham Gazazyan was born in 1910, in historical province of Sebastia, city Nikodemia (Izmit), Constantinople where he spent his first years of childhood. In 1915 his family […]

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