May 9 in Koghb

2011-05-19

May 9 is traditionally celebrated with a great triumph in Koghb, the largest village of Tavoush Region.That day the head of the village Arsen Aghababyan, community officials and war veterans visited Soviet Union hero Jahan Karakhanyan’s monument situated in the yard of Koghb school № 1 and put flowers at it. Later they paid a visit to the monument to all the war victims of Koghb in the centre of the village. Serjik Barseghyan, the head of Koghb’s veterans’ council, Levon Ananyan, the president of Armenia’s writers’ union, Ashot Aghababyan, the editor-in-chief of the weekly “Hayatsk” , and Suren Abovyan, the founder of Koghb’s history museum, made a speech on this solemn occasion. Among the veterans of Koghb was Vazghen Pashikyan (94 years old) who has taken part in three wars, the Soviet-Finnish war, the Great Patriotic War and the war against Japan. He was wounded five times, and got shell shocked at the explosion while destroying the great German grouping in Prague, on May 9, 1945.

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