FESTIVITIES MARKING CITY 2787TH ANNIVERSARY START IN YEREVAN
Pan Armenian
08.10.2005 12:24 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Festivities marking Yerevan Day – the 2787th
anniversary of the founding of the city start in the Armenian capital
today. The measures will start with the opening of festivities at
the National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet after Alexander
Spendiaryan, while a concert and fireworks will take place in the
Republic Square in the evening. Open doors day will be held in all
medical institutions of the capital and patients will get medical
consultation, humanitarian medicines for free and will be sent
to hospitals if necessary. Concerts with participation of child
bands will be held in Yerevan parks Sunday, while a gala-concert
of Armenian pop stars will take place in the Republic Square in the
evening. Erebuni-Yerevan holiday was first marked in 1967, when the
city was 2750. Before 1988 the holiday was marked annually, however
after declaration of the independence the tradition resumed only
in 1998.