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Armenia will hold farewell ceremony for prominent Soviet Armenian sculptor and painter Nikoghayos Nikoghosyan on August 17 at 13:00 and 15:00 local time at Artists Union of Armenia (Abovyan St., 16 Building).

As the government commission set to organize the funeral reports, the burial ceremony will be held on the same day at Komitas Pantheon.

To remind, sculptor, painter, People’s Artist of the Soviet Union, Nikoghayos Nikoghosyan passed away on August 11 at the age of 99.  

An academician of Russian Academy of Arts, he is one of the prominent figures of the modern Armenian monumental statuary.

He created the sculptural portraits of such prominent people as Armenian writer Avetik Isahakyan, composer Aram Khachaturian, Russian pianist Konstantin Igumnov and others. The monuments to Mikael Nalbandian (Yerevan), Avetik Isahakyan (Gyumri) and Yeghishe Charents (Yerevan) are among the artist’s monumental and monumental-decorative sculptures.