As reported by Yerkramas Armenian newspaper being issued in Krasnodar, vandals damaged a monument to Armenians – the founders of the city of Budennovsk (Stavropol region). The opening of the complex to the Founding Fathers of the City of Holy Cross was held October 17, 2004. The complex is composed of an arch 8 meters in height, a khachkar (cross-stone) and a stone composition. The Russian and Armenian sides of the monument were damaged: numbers 1799-2004 were disrupted from the Russian side, and the same figures and almost the whole of the Surb Khach inscription – from the Armenian. As written by the newspaper, what happened may be a consequence of anti-Caucasian moods in general or a sally by satanists. The newspaper also says that leaders of the local Armenian community, which has initiated the erection of the monument, now think over the problem of making the part of the monument, that contains the text, as they say, “anti-vandal”. The city of Surb Khach (Holy Cross, now Budennovsk) was founded in 1799 by Armenians and Tats of Armenian Christian belief – migrants from Karabakh, Derbent and other sites in compliance with a patent of Russian Emperor Paul I.
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