YEREVAN. – Armenian capital city Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan hosted Russian cosmonauts Alexander Ivanchenkov and Sergei Treshchov, who are in Yerevan to attend the Erebuni-Yerevan 2794th Anniversary celebrations.  

The Mayor noted that Yerevan’s doors are always open before all friends. “You are true friends of Yerevan, and I am convinced that you will love Yerevan so much that you will visit our hospitable city more often,” Margaryan said, Yerevan Municipality Information and Public Relations Department informs.            

In their turn, Ivanchenkov and Treshchov confessed that even though they arrived in Yerevan just a day ago, they already came to love Armenia’s capital city. “Your city is really wonderful and you have a right to be proud. And we are simply marveled by Yerevan at night,” the guests noted.       

Subsequently, they presented to Taron Margaryan Yerevan’s photograph taken from space.

Thanking for this unprecedented gift and the warm words, Taron Margaryan suggested to the cosmonauts to take a souvenir-sculpture decorated with Yerevan’s symbols to space and then to return it and donate it to Yerevan HistoryMuseum. Cosmonauts Alexander Ivanchenkov and Sergei Treshchov promised to do this in their next flight to space.