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    AN EVENING DEDICATED TO GRIGOR GURZADYAN IN "HAYART"

    Aysor
    April 1 2010
    Armenia

    On April 2 in the "HayART" cultural center will take place an event
    dedicated to Grigor Gurzadyan, academician, painter, writer and
    astrophysicist.

    On the evening around 60 works of Gurzadyan will be presented. There
    will be introduced also the books "The space in the palm", "A love
    story", "A cosmic catastrophe", "Thoughts... thoughts...", "My son
    on the Top of Ararat", "The mystery of Kakavaberd", will also be
    presented the film "The space in the palm".

    As the press service of the "HayART" cultural center told to Aysor.am
    film "The space in the palm" was shot by Rita Sharoyan who is the
    director of the "HayART" culyural center and the auther of many
    documentary films. The film lasts for 35 minutes.

    The source also informed that "The space in the palm" film is divided
    into several subtitles; it has been shot based on the archive materials
    of Rita Sharoyan and Grigor Gurzadyan. Exceptional materials have
    been used form Moscow. There are also some episodes showing the
    establishment of "Orion". The meetings, discussions, debates are
    presented in the film.

    Born in October 15, 1922 in Baghdad, he became the postgraduate of
    Victor Hambartsumian, who had just moved to Armenia.

    Being in Hambartsumian's founding team of Byurakan Observatory, he
    later headed a Laboratory, in 1960s became deputy director of the
    Observatory for space research.

    Then he moved to design space orbital observatories. The highlight
    was Orion 2 Space Observatory. It was in April, 1971, when the first
    space station Salyut 1 carried into orbit Orion 1 Space Observatory,
    the first space telescope with an objective prism.
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