Grachya Tamrazyan shot off the cannon of the Peter and Paul Fortress

This ceremony has become an epilogue to the awards ceremony of Grachya Tamrazyan who was given Chingiz Aitmatov Award by the IPA CIS .

Grachya Tamrazyan is an Armenian statesman, poet, linguist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, a member of the Writers’ Guild of the USSR, the director of the Matenadaran, the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts.