Armenians’ Union Of Tbilisi Asks To Preserve Armenian Writer’s Flat

ARMENIANS’ UNION OF TBILISI ASKS TO PRESERVE ARMENIAN WRITER’S FLAT

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Monday, January 16, 18:38

ArmInfo-Black Sea Press. The Tbilisi Unions of Armenians disseminated
a statement, expressing concern over fortune of “the memorial flat of
great classic of Armenian literature Ovanes Tumanyan, the information
center of Armenians’ newspaper in Russia “Erkrmas” reports.

As it is said in the statement, “in 90s Tbilisi Mayor’s Office made a
deal with some businessman , according to which he was transferred some
public libraries, including the city library after Ovanes Tumanyan,
which was situated on the larger part of his flat, as payment for
petrol, he delivered to the city. The businessman won many year
litigation of the library officials. At the present time the building
is being intensively repaired before its sale”.

“Georgian-Turkish firm GeoTuran is the only purchaser, it buys the
historical flat with the aim of its reconstruction for a hostel for
Turkish workers”, the statement reads. It is noted that Tumanyan’s
family transferred his flat voluntarily to Tbilisi in the 30s of XX
century for the library.

“The head of the firm appealed to the poet’s grand-grand daughter
Alena Tumanyan-Kolesnikoca, who lived in the second part of the
memorial flat, with the request to sell the second part too, but he
was got a refusal.

“Ovanes Tumanyan like Ilia Chavchavadze and Mirza Fatali Akhudov,
who have been buried in the Georgian land, belong to the whole world
and the whole world must defend their memory”, the authors of the
appeal call and ask to preserve the Armenian writer’s heritage.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress