
Published on January 20, 2012
TODAY IS ARMENIAN POETESS SILVA KAPUTIKYAN'S ANNIVERSARY
- Today is Armenian famous poetess Silva Kaputikyan's anniversary. She was born in Yerevan in 1919 on January 20 in a family migrated from Van. Studied and finished the secondary school after Krupskaya. She graduated from the YSU in 1941, and attended literature institute after M. Gorki in Moscow. In 1945 was issued the first collection of poems called "Together with the days." She has issued 60-70 books in Armenian, Russian, English, Georgian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Turkish, etc. She has 20 collections in Russian. Since 1962 has visited Armenian Diasporas in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, the US, Canada, countries in South America, Germany, Austria, Iran, Jerusalem and has written in her memoires. She has received number of awards. The poetess has died in 2006, on August 25 and is buried in the Pantheon dedicated to the Armenian Genocide. In 2009, on January 20 was opened the house-museum of the poetess.

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Today in Armenian history- 1780 The Armenian colony of New Nakhichevan (Rostov, Russia) is founded.
- 1921 Publication in Brussels of Abbot Matern Muret's memoirs. He witnessed the Genocide of the Marash Armenians by the Turks from January 20 to February 11, 1920 as a result of French perfidy. He called the killing of 20000 Armenians during that time enough to make any human insane.
- 1933 Opening of the Spendiaryan State Opera Building in Yerevan.
- 1989 The Supreme Soviet of the USSR establishes a special authority headed by Volsky in Artsakh. This authority is directly subject to the USSR Government rather than to Soviet Azerbaijan. In the summer, a National Council was formed which represented all strata of Artsakhs population.
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