Armenian community of St. Petersburg celebrates Artsakh Day
ArmInfo. The event dedicated to the 26th anniversary of the independence and statehood of the Republic of Artsakh (the Nagorno Karabakh Republic) was held on September 3 in the cultural center "Vernatun" of the Armenian community of St. Petersburg.
As the initiative group told ArmInfo, the event began with the prayer and opening remarks of the vicar of the Russian and Novo-Nakhichevan diocese in St. Petersburg and the North-West region, hieromonks Pogos Vardanyan. The Consul General of Armenia in SPb Hrayr Karapetyan, the founder of the Center for Rehabilitation of Refugees Adelina Mnatsakanova addressed the audience.
The gathered talked about the need to strengthen social, cultural, educational, humanitarian and economic ties with Artsakh, recalled the heroes of the Artsikh War, honored the memory of the fallen young wars, with the next aggression of Azerbaijan in April last year. During the event films and video materials were shown.Let's remind that these days in Artsakh there was a presentation of books of the writer-Petersburger Levon Adyan.