Exhibition hall in Khachatur Abovyan’s home-museum will open in Yerevan early in November. The hall which has a total area of 600 sq. meters is divided into 12 sections.
Reconstruction complying with international standards cost AMD 20, of which AMD 10 million was allocated by Government and the remaining part was paid by sponsors, particularly VivaCell-MTS.
Khachatur Abovyan -an Armmenian writer and enlightener-democrat, founder of new Armenian literature and new literary language, pedagogue and ethnographer – was born in Kanaker, a village in the vicinities of Erivani (Yerevan). He studied in Ecmiadzin and then, in Nersisyan Seminary of Tbilisi (1824-26). Later he graduated from Derpt (currently: Tartusk) university. Upon returning his homeland, he devoted himself to teaching activity. Abovyan met a hostile attitude by reactionary Armenian clergy and Tzarist officials for being against dogmatism and formalism in school education. Beginning 1837, Abovyan was a supervisor in a Tbilisi district college, and beginning 1843 he held the same post in Yerevan. On April 2 (14), 1848 Abovyan left his home and never returned.
