Armenia and Rostov Region to cooperate in science sphere

The head of the Rostov Region, Vasily Golubev, has visited the
National Academy of Sciences in Armenia, where he met members of the
Academy’s presidium, Yuga.ru reports.

Golubev expressed confidence that the cooperation agreement that the
Rostov Region and the Armenian government plan to sign will improve
ties between the two peoples, including cooperation in the science
sphere.

In 2004 an agreement was signed between the Southern Science Center of
the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Armenian Academy of Sciences.
An ecological expedition studied the water system of Manych-Chogray
and there was a joint biological expedition on Sevan Lake. In summer
2010 scientific research in physics and nanotechnologies was
conducted. The sides exchange students and teachers within the
framework of scientific and practical conferences and carry out joint
studies.

Armenian scientists praised the contribution of the Rostov Region to
the development of scientific cooperation by awarding the governor a
large gold medal of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia.

Golubev met the Governor of the Ararat Region, Eduard Barsegyan, the
press-secretary of the governor’s office Irina Chetvertakova said.

He visited the memorial to Don and Kuban Cossacks in Yerevan. The
governor laid flowers at the memorial to the Cossack heroes who played
an important role in the Russian-Turkish and Russian-Persian wars of
the XIX-XX centuries.