President Serzh Sargsyan on Saturday paid a visit to Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory Named After Viktor Hambardzumyan—the great Armenian theoretical astrophysicist—of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of Armenia.   

The President got familiar with the renovation and upgrading carried out at the observatory, and the working conditions of its administrative building.

Sargsyan also toured the vacuum station of the observatory and examined the Viktor Hambardzumyan Telescope. The President was informed that the Armenian NAS Presidium had reached a decision to upgrade this telescope.    

According to the persons in charge of the observatory, ever since when the latter was included in the list of Armenia’s national values at the beginning of this year and as a result of making respective allocations to the budget of the observatory, an opportunity was created to carry out considerable work and to upgrade its management system. It was noted that the majority of the respective works is completed.