Pavel Akopian, PhD student and assistant at the Department of Medieval Civilizations History of the Institute of International Relations and World History of UNN, took part in the International Scientific Conference ‘The Written Heritage of Armenia’ which was held at the Faculty of Oriental Studies of Saint Petersburg State University from September 23 to 25.

Experts from top Russian and Armenian universities gathered to examine a wide range of issues concerning the research on Armenian written heritage carried out by philologists, literary critics, historians, and orientalists. Pavel Akopian gave a presentation entitled ‘Pavstos Buzand and his interpretation of Armenian history’. It is one of the research topics of the Centre for Armenian Studies of Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod.