Chairman of the RA Veterans Association Council retired colonel Simon Yesayan told that if on the 65th anniversary of the Victory there were 3,500 Great Patriotic War veterans in Armenia, today there are 950. “They are legends, let’s them evaluate and honour adequately”.

On January 29, Zorik would have turned 27 years old.
On the night of 2 August, 2014, when trying to suspend reconnaissance-sabotage penetration of the enemy in the direction of Martakert, Senior Lieutenant Zorik Gevorgyan was killed. In an unequal battle Zorik got two wounds, and the third wound was fatal to the young officer.

On January 22, 2016, RA Defense Ministry’s administrative complex hosted a meeting dedicated to summarizing the results of the work done in 2015 in the sphere of patriotic education.

On January 23, at the Church of St. Sarkis of Nor Nork in Yerevan a ceremony was held at the initiative of the staff of the Military Institute after V.Sargsyan and high priest of the Church Norayr Baghdasaryan.

…Dear compatriots! Congratulations on the 24th anniversary of the formation of the Armenian Army!

Voronezh journalist Valentin Kotyukh approached us with the request – to provide data about the pilot, the commander of the fighter, Junior Lieutenant Artyusha Ohanjanyan who died heroically near Voronezh on July 8, 1942, directing his burning plane in a concentration of enemy tanks.

Ministry of Defence and the Writers’ Union have a cooperation program, according to which they must organize activities aimed at the moral, military, patriotic, cultural, ideological education of soldiers.