The second “Yerevan TarazFest 2016” festival held for the second time by Yerevan Municipality within the frames of three-month program “Yerevan summer”, has taken place in Revival square in the capital of Artsakh. 

The official ceremony of opening was started with the greeting speech of Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan presented by Yerevan Mayor's Assistant Maria Baraghamyan. The message particularly said: “ Holding “Yerevan TarazFest 2016” festival which is one of the most successful festivals of “Yerevan summer” program in Stepanakert we state once again that strengthening our cooperation with cultural component of not less importance for us. Wishing the festival a successful pace we assure that Yerevan Municipality is going to continue
with national elements and other items were represented in Yerevan and Artsakh pavilions placed in Revival square. The festival was accompanied with the performances of national ensembles of Yerevan and Artsakh.
Attaching particular importance to holding “Yerevan TarazFest 2016” in the capital of Artsakh the decision on which was made during Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan's official visit to Artsakh, Yerevan Mayor's Assistant Maria Baraghamyan said that consistently all the programs aimed at strengthening and development of bilateral ties”.
The cultural part of the festival started with the performance of “Milen show ballet” arrived from Yerevan.
Together with the participants and the guests of the festival the process of “Yerevan TarazFest 2016” was watched by the NKR President Bako Sahakyan. The President of Artsakh walked about the pavilions and familiarized himself with the presented samples.
It should be noted that traditional national costumes (taraz), modern clothes decorated the festival is the first big step towards promotion of cultural and tourism programs between the two partner cities.

“It's a big honour for us that this year “Yerevan TarazFest 2016” is hosted in Artsakh which has a rich cultural heritage. This event will become the first swallow of cultural interaction which will certainly be followed by other various events”, said Maria Baraghamyan.
In harmony with the symbol of the festival, in 15 Yerevan pavilions are represented the samples of Yerevan history Museum, Megeryan carpet-museum, collections of the fashion studio of Anahit Simonyan as well as works by other individuals. Shuhi carpet factory, Artsakh state historic and geologic museum, Hadrut children's and youth's creative center, Shushi state humanitarian college after Arsen Khachatryan and individual masters are represented in separate pavilions.
The First Deputy mayor of Stepanakert Suren Tamrazyan stressing the active cooperation between Yerevan and Stepanakert, noted that holding of such a festival is important both for strengthening the partnership and for tourism boosting.
“Yerevan TarazFest 2016” which is held within the frames of cooperation between municipalities of Yerevan and Stepanakert will not only provide high mood of the participants but also will give a new stimulus the strengthening the cultural ties between the two capitals. It will also promote Artsakh recognition and tourism attraction”, said Suren Tamrazyan.
About 130 participants arrived from Yerevan to take part in the event: national song and dance groups, journalists, employees of Yerevan Municipality Department of Culture and Tourism, craftsmen, designers, ethnologists.
Late in the evening the exhibition-fair will be followed by the show of the collections of ethno-style cloths by designers Lilit Melikyan, Aram Nikolyan and Vahan Khachatryan. the defile will be accompanied by the performance of “Mikael Voskanyan and friends” band.

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of the City hall of Yerevan