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Published on May 17, 2008
KHACHATUR ABOVYAN’S MUSEUM – 70 YEARS OLD
This year the 70 anniversary of Khachatru Abovyans museum is celebrated. The director of the museum Hovhannes Zatikyan said that reconstruction activities are being held in the museum. According to the director yet in 2005 Andranik Margaryan, the Prime Minister of Armenia, disposed 180mln drams to repair the museum but it was not enough. Zatikyan said that he managed to get 50mln drams for one part of the reconstruction but for the rest 10mln is needed. The director of the museum wished to reconstruct the old part of the building, to make it a scientific cultural center and to name it after Andranik Margaryan. Abovyan museum has a large library where 2000 books are kept. Zatikyan wished to make it mass library.
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