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NATIONAL GALLERY HOSTS EXHIBITION DEDICATED TO PAINTER STEPAN TARYAN’S 110TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY

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  On November 25, Armenian National Gallery opened an exhibition dedicated to painter Stepan Taryan’s 110th birth anniversary. The third exhibition following Taryan’s death, it displayed 110 works by the artist. “Beginning 1926, the artist organized over 20 exhibitions, with 2 being his personal. His paintings were displayed in several towns of USSR and in different international cultural centers,” artist’s son Suren Taryan said, adding that his family plans to open Stepan Taryan’s home-museum in Yerevan and has already applied to RA Ministry of Culture. Painter, sculptor and art critic Stepan Taryan was born on August 17, 1899 in Tbilisi. He graduated from Russian Art Academy of Petrograd, receiving the qualification of sculptor.

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• 1895  Birth of Anastas Mikoyan (Bolshevik politician) in Sanahin near Alaverdi. He died in 1978.
• 1936  Stalin's Constitution is proclaimed.
• 1945  Inauguration of "Victory" bridge in Yerevan.
• 1962  Death of Goorgen Mkheetarian, writer and publicist. He was born in 1890.
• 1963  Meeting of the History Institute of the Armenian SSR's Academy of Sciences (devoted to the friendship of Transcaucasian peoples) with parallel bodies in the Georgian SSR and Azerbaijan SSR under the aegis of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1980  Inauguration of Yerevan's Alexander Miasnikyan monument.
• 1989  Gorbachov imposes martial law in Yerevan and Baku.

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