People in Rostov-on-Don paid respect to victims of Assyrian Genocide
in Turkey 08.08.2009 11:03 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On August 7, Staro-Pokrovskiy Temple in
Rostov-on-Don hosted a public liturgy to commemorate the 1.5 million
victims of 1914-1923 Assyrian Genocide in Ottoman Empire.
Saving their skins from Turkish yataghans, Assyrians settled on the
territory of Russian Empire, mostly – in Armenia and Georgia. After
the collapse of USSR, many Assyrian families moved to Russia from
Transcaucasus. Most of them settled in Rostov region which currently
has an Assyrian population of 15 thousand, united in a regional
national-cultural autonomy, `Yerkramas’ newspaper reports.