CHERMOZ INHABITANTS TO SEE "DREAMS ABOUT ARMEIA"
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jun 21 2006
PERM, JUNE 21, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The inhabitants of
the town of Chermoz, Ilyinski region, Perm territory, will see an
exhibition "Dreams about Armenia" that will open on June 24 at the
Chermoz museum of history and regional geography. According to the
Yerkramas (Territory) newspaper of Armenians of Russia, this gift
was made to the inhabitants of Chermoz by the Armenian community of
Perm for the Day of the Town. The Armenian community gratuitously
organized delivery of the pictures to the town.
The exposition dedicated to Year of Armenia in Russia for the
first time opened in February in Yekaterinburg Gallery of Modern
Art. Photos by professional TV cameraman Artur Poghosian, paintings
and drawings by Natalia Petrenko (Nizhni Tagil), as well as landscapes
by painter-mountain-climber Artur Karapetian from Bereznikovsk were
presented at the exhibition.
The history of Chermoz gets mixed up with the history of the Armenian
Diaspora of Russia. In 1778 Ivan Lazarev from Persia and Armenian
by his origin bought from the Stroganovs the Chermoz plant and the
lands adjoining it and at the end of the 19th century Chermoz became
the administrative center of the estate of the Lazarevs.
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jun 21 2006
PERM, JUNE 21, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The inhabitants of
the town of Chermoz, Ilyinski region, Perm territory, will see an
exhibition "Dreams about Armenia" that will open on June 24 at the
Chermoz museum of history and regional geography. According to the
Yerkramas (Territory) newspaper of Armenians of Russia, this gift
was made to the inhabitants of Chermoz by the Armenian community of
Perm for the Day of the Town. The Armenian community gratuitously
organized delivery of the pictures to the town.
The exposition dedicated to Year of Armenia in Russia for the
first time opened in February in Yekaterinburg Gallery of Modern
Art. Photos by professional TV cameraman Artur Poghosian, paintings
and drawings by Natalia Petrenko (Nizhni Tagil), as well as landscapes
by painter-mountain-climber Artur Karapetian from Bereznikovsk were
presented at the exhibition.
The history of Chermoz gets mixed up with the history of the Armenian
Diaspora of Russia. In 1778 Ivan Lazarev from Persia and Armenian
by his origin bought from the Stroganovs the Chermoz plant and the
lands adjoining it and at the end of the 19th century Chermoz became
the administrative center of the estate of the Lazarevs.