During a conversation with www.aravot.am, Areg Mikayelyan, a prominent scientist of the Byurakan Observatory and a co-chairman of the Armenian Astronomical Society, paid attention to the initiative to build a planetarium in Artsakh, in which Garik Israyelyan, a professor of the European Astrophysical Scientific Center, and Michele Movsesyan, a Diaspora architect, were engaged. Mikayelyan asserted that planetariums played an important role in education. “They are special devices, very complex systems comprised of projectors. The price of an ordinary planetarium starts from half a million dollars. Now light, inflatable planetariums for a few people are produced,” the scientist explained.
He also stated with regret that we didn’t have a planetarium in Yerevan, “There was one in Komitas Park in the 1980s, but it has been destroyed, robbed after Armenia became independent and even the building has been sold.”
Gohar HAKOBYAN
