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ARMENIA TO CELEBRATE VICTORY IN GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR AT A HIGH LEVEL - GOVERNMENT
YEREVAN, March 30. /ARKA/. Armenia's premier Hovik Abrahamyan
instructed the commission on commemoration of the 70th anniversary
of the victory in the Great Patriotic War to ensure the high standard
of the events, the press office of the government reported on Friday.
Commemoration events will be held throughout the year. On May 9, floral
tribute will be paid to the Eternal Flame and the Tomb of Unknown
Soldier at Yerevan's Victory Park; the army soldiers will march in a
parade and a concert will be held afterwards. A jubilee concert will
be performed in the center of Yerevan, Republican Square, on the same
day, followed by the festive fireworks letting off seventy shells.
Apart from this, the delegation of the Armenian war veterans will
head to Moscow to participate in the festivities. During this year,
a scientific conference will be held, academic research papers will
be published, and festive exhibitions will be held in Mayr Hayastan
(Mother Armenia) museum and elsewhere in the country to remark the
anniversary of the victory. Films about the Great Patriotic War will
be demonstrated throughout the country.
Meetings with war veterans will be arranged in military units and
schools. Improvement works will be carried on the monuments and
memorials dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.
War veterans will receive, apart from medical insurance, holiday
packages for sanatoriums and health resorts. Earlier, the Armenian
government doubled the bonus payment to 50,000 drams (about $106)
to some 1,100 to war veterans, who, are entitled also to remuneration
and other payments.
In the period from June 1941 to May 1945, over 500,000 Armenians were
drafted to the Soviet Army, about 200,000 of them were killed in the
battles. A hundred and six Armenians were awarded Hero of the Soviet
Union, including legendary pilot Nelson Stepanyan and Marshall of
the Soviet Union Hovhannes Baghramyan who received the award twice.
Twenty-seven Armenian became full cavaliers of the Order of Glory.
Armenians' contribution in the victory included major army
commanders, such as twice Hero of the Soviet Union marshall Hovhannes
Baghramyan, Hero of the Soviet Union marshall of armored troops
Hamazasp Babajanyan, aviation marshall Sergey Khudiakov (Armenak
Khanferyants), Hero of the Soviet Union fleet admiral Ivan Isakov
(Hovhannes Isahakyan).
Armenia sent six motor-rifle divisions to the frontline, including
the 39th Tamanyan division that reached Berlin. About 100,000 ethnic
Armenians were involved in the resistance movement in WWII from the
Armenian communities worldwide and fought as part of the allies'
armies. -0--
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YEREVAN, March 30. /ARKA/. Armenia's premier Hovik Abrahamyan
instructed the commission on commemoration of the 70th anniversary
of the victory in the Great Patriotic War to ensure the high standard
of the events, the press office of the government reported on Friday.
Commemoration events will be held throughout the year. On May 9, floral
tribute will be paid to the Eternal Flame and the Tomb of Unknown
Soldier at Yerevan's Victory Park; the army soldiers will march in a
parade and a concert will be held afterwards. A jubilee concert will
be performed in the center of Yerevan, Republican Square, on the same
day, followed by the festive fireworks letting off seventy shells.
Apart from this, the delegation of the Armenian war veterans will
head to Moscow to participate in the festivities. During this year,
a scientific conference will be held, academic research papers will
be published, and festive exhibitions will be held in Mayr Hayastan
(Mother Armenia) museum and elsewhere in the country to remark the
anniversary of the victory. Films about the Great Patriotic War will
be demonstrated throughout the country.
Meetings with war veterans will be arranged in military units and
schools. Improvement works will be carried on the monuments and
memorials dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.
War veterans will receive, apart from medical insurance, holiday
packages for sanatoriums and health resorts. Earlier, the Armenian
government doubled the bonus payment to 50,000 drams (about $106)
to some 1,100 to war veterans, who, are entitled also to remuneration
and other payments.
In the period from June 1941 to May 1945, over 500,000 Armenians were
drafted to the Soviet Army, about 200,000 of them were killed in the
battles. A hundred and six Armenians were awarded Hero of the Soviet
Union, including legendary pilot Nelson Stepanyan and Marshall of
the Soviet Union Hovhannes Baghramyan who received the award twice.
Twenty-seven Armenian became full cavaliers of the Order of Glory.
Armenians' contribution in the victory included major army
commanders, such as twice Hero of the Soviet Union marshall Hovhannes
Baghramyan, Hero of the Soviet Union marshall of armored troops
Hamazasp Babajanyan, aviation marshall Sergey Khudiakov (Armenak
Khanferyants), Hero of the Soviet Union fleet admiral Ivan Isakov
(Hovhannes Isahakyan).
Armenia sent six motor-rifle divisions to the frontline, including
the 39th Tamanyan division that reached Berlin. About 100,000 ethnic
Armenians were involved in the resistance movement in WWII from the
Armenian communities worldwide and fought as part of the allies'
armies. -0--
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