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Kostan Zarian's grandchildren have donated the archive of the outstanding Soviet Armenian writer, poet, novelist, and art historian to Mashtots Matenadaran.

The donation also includes published and unpublished, handwritten and typewritten works in different languages by Kostan’s son, Architect Armen Zarian, concerning architecture, urban development and art, Matenadaran said in a Facebook post.

The goal of the donation is to preserve, coordinate, archive, study, publish, publicize and digitize Kostan Zarian's literary and art history works, letters, notes, and biographical material, all of which are of great value.

The archive has not been completed yet. In the coming months, Kostan Zarian archives in other countries, too, will be brought to Armenia, and the preservation of this material will also be entrusted to Mashtots Matenadaran.