Pan Armenian News
MONUMENT TO COSSACKS – HEROES OF RUSSIAN-TURKISH AND RUSSIAN-PERSIAN WARS TO
BE ERECTED IN YEREVAN
20.09.2005 06:58
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ October 9, 2005 a memorial to Cossacks, who took part in
the Russian-Turkish and Russian-Persian wars, will be opened in Yerevan,
reported the Yerkramas, the newspaper of Armenians of Russia. The decision
to open the monument is taken by Novy Nakhichevan Armenian community along
with Yerevan City Administration. The initiative was approved by atamans of
Don and Kuban Cossacks. The monument will be set in Kanaker Yerevan
community, where the Cossack regiment was situated during the
Russian-Turkish war.