Yerevan Municipality cancels Erebuni-Yerevan festival

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18.08.2021, 11:18

Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutyan has cancelled all festive events, which were to be held as part of Erebuni-Yerevan festival, usually held in early October and devoted to the Armenian capital city Yerevan.

Yerevan Municipality cancels Erebuni-Yerevan festival

YEREVAN, August 18. /ARKA/. Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutyan has cancelled all festive events, which were to be held as part of Erebuni-Yerevan festival, usually held in early October and devoted to the Armenian capital city Yerevan.

The news was announced by the Yerevan Municipality spokesman Hakob Karapetyan. He said part of the funds that had been earmarked for the festival will be used to build houses for internally displaced families in Nagorno-Karabakh and the other part will be allocated for the modernization of the Erebuni Museum and the Museum of the Yerevan History.

The construction of houses for internally displaced families in Nagorno-Karabakh is supported by Armenia’s Public TV and the Artsakh for Life Foundation, which will build 100 houses near the village of Dakhrav in Askeran district, 16 km from Stepanakert.

The festival marking the establishment anniversary of the Armenian capital city is usually held every second Saturday of October.

Erebuni (Yerevan) was founded in 782 BC by king Argishti the First. The cornerstone, on which the year of foundation was carved, is still intact kept at Erebuni Fortress Museum.

Yerevan was proclaimed the capital of the First Republic of Armenia on May 28, 1918. Yerevan Day is celebrated annually, starting from 1968. -0-

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