In Soviet historiography, such “inconvenient” facts have always been covered up. In reality, the tsarist secret police have arrested the great poet several times – in particular, in 1909-1911 – on “charges” of assisting the Armenian national liberation movement. It should be noted that Tumanyan’s lawyer was the future leader of democratic Russia, Prime Minister …
On August 1, 1918, the first session of the Armenian National Council (Parliament) of the first convocation opened in Yerevan. The first legislative body in the history of Armenia was formed in the summer of 1918, two months after the proclamation of the republic’s independence. This parliament was the only one in the history of …
The Iğdır or Surmalinsky district together with Mount Ararat has always geographically and historically been an integral part of Eastern Armenia. It was also part of the Republic of Armenia in 1918-1920 and was annexed by Kemalist Turkey and Bolshevik Russia under the illegal Russian-Turkish treaty. Even after 1555, as a result of the partition …
If you carefully study the map below, it becomes clear that in February 1924 when the so-called Nakhchivan Soviet Autonomous Republic was created, the southern part of Sharur-Daralagyaz region (Vayots Dzor) was illegally annexed to this new formation. It should be noted that Sharur was part of the Yerevan province (Russian Empire) and subsequently an …
The House of Writers is a magnificent creation of Soviet modernism designed by the brilliant Gevorg Kochar by the order of Stalin. After Kochar’s death, the oval building was added as well. Had a healthy bourgeois class been formed in Armenia rather than criminal-oligarchic elements, this complex would have long been purchased or taken into …
During the Artsakh War, the Armenians came up with a very original way of fighting enemy aircraft. Since the Azerbaijani planes would fly at low altitude through the gorge near Shushi to avoid detection by Armenian counter-air defenses, it was decided to use the terrain features to eliminate them. Steel cables were pulled through the …
In 921, Armenian king Ashot Yerkat (Iron), having only 70 Armenian archers at his disposal, defeated the large army of General Yusuf Amir Beshir in the Battle of Sevan. The battle took place on the eastern shore of the island in Lake Sevan. A small Armenian detachment in 11 boats led by the king attacked …
With the joint financing of the French branch of the “Hayastan All Armenian Fund” and the Republic of Artsakh, the reconstruction of the regional hospital and the construction of its new building began in Karvachar. Press Secretary of the “Hayastan All Armenian Fund” Armine Tokhmakhyan said in a conversation with Artsakhpress that construction works had …