MONUMENT TO COSSACKS - HEROES OF RUSSIAN-PERSIAN WAR ERECTED IN YEREVAN
Pan Armenian
10.10.2005 13:02 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A monument to the Cossacks killed during the
Russian-Persian wars in 1826-1827 was unveiled and consecrated near the
Russian Orthodox Church in Yerevan. Words "To the Cossacks of Russia
from grateful Armenian people" are inscribed on the gravestone. The
construction of the memorial was financed by the Armenian community of
Rostov with the assistance of the Yerevan City Administration. Russian
Ambassador to Armenia and RA Ambassador to Russia, governor of Rostov
Oblast Vladimir Chub, Mayors of Rostov-on-Don Mikhail Chernishev and
of Yerevan Yervand Zakharian as well as the RA Minister of territorial
integrity, head of the national security service and chief of the
Armenian police were present at the ceremony.
When delivering a speech Yervand Zakharian noted that the monument
was inaugurated in the place where a Cossack regiment, whose soldiers
gave lost their lives defending Armenia, was quartered. "This fact
once again proves that the friendship between Armenia and Russia is
eternal and we laid one more stone in the fundament of our friendship",
he said, Interfax reported.
Pan Armenian
10.10.2005 13:02 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A monument to the Cossacks killed during the
Russian-Persian wars in 1826-1827 was unveiled and consecrated near the
Russian Orthodox Church in Yerevan. Words "To the Cossacks of Russia
from grateful Armenian people" are inscribed on the gravestone. The
construction of the memorial was financed by the Armenian community of
Rostov with the assistance of the Yerevan City Administration. Russian
Ambassador to Armenia and RA Ambassador to Russia, governor of Rostov
Oblast Vladimir Chub, Mayors of Rostov-on-Don Mikhail Chernishev and
of Yerevan Yervand Zakharian as well as the RA Minister of territorial
integrity, head of the national security service and chief of the
Armenian police were present at the ceremony.
When delivering a speech Yervand Zakharian noted that the monument
was inaugurated in the place where a Cossack regiment, whose soldiers
gave lost their lives defending Armenia, was quartered. "This fact
once again proves that the friendship between Armenia and Russia is
eternal and we laid one more stone in the fundament of our friendship",
he said, Interfax reported.