The village of Harich, Artik region, where Armenian celebrities such as Komitas the Master and Avetik Isahakyan (studied in Harichavank School in 1887-1889) studied and created in the village monastery, has a street named after Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Recently, attending the spiritual music festival in the yard of Harichavank, our camera fixed the Nazarbayev Street, whose name, by the way, is written in Russian.
We asked Harichavank village mayor Roland Nazaretyan why they named the village street after Nazarbayev, for what good attitude of Kazakh president… The village mayor said they are in close ties with the Kazakhs, in 1400-1947, their village was called Ghpchagh, and Kazakhs considering the Ghpchagh residents their brothers came and made friends with them, renovated the village kindergarten, opened a library and thus the cooperation started.
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To our question of whether the street was asphalted by Kazakhs to name it after Nazarbayev, the village mayor said, “No, when for the first time nominating his candidacy for the post of the president, Serzh Sargsyan came to our village, saw the ruined street, promised to asphalt, and upon being elected, he kept to his promise, for which we are very grateful to him. And we have named the street after Nazarbayev to make a bit of good to the village.”
To our question of whether you did not regret after Nazarbayev’s behavior to Armenians at the Astana summit, where he read the letter of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, putting the president of our country in an inconvenient situate, and in addition was obviously against Armenia’s accession to the Eurasian Economic Union, Harichavank village mayor said that he is following all the events. According to the village mayor, he knows everything about it, but it has nothing to do with it, especially when the street is not officially registered by the name of Nursultan Nazarbayev. The village streets, in accordance with the regulations, have no names. They are numbered.
The village mayor also said that their close cooperation with the Kazakhs lasts about 7 years, and this friendship was established thanks to the former MP Mkhitar Varagyan of the Artik region, whose brother living in Kazakhstan is in close ties with Nazarbayev. “Let it be good to the village, a bit of good to my village, if you see nothing is happened, we will change Nazarbayev to Nazaretyan. What’s the problem?” said the village mayor jokingly.
Nune AREVSHATYAN
