The ceremony is dedicated to the mourning date - the 104th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
The event was attended by the Consul General of the Republic of Armenia in St. Petersburg, Hrayr Karapetyan, the Head of the office of Yerevan City Administration in St. Petersburg Armenak Karapetyan, representatives of the St. Petersburg External Relations Committee and the administration of Vasileostrovsky District, as well as representatives of the Armenian Apostolic Church in St. Petersburg and Armenian public associations.
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April 24 is celebrated as the commemoration day for the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
On this day in 1915, prominent figures of the Armenian community were arrested or killed in Constantinople. In 1915-1916 more than 1.5 million Armenians were killed in Turkey. Over 600 thousand people were forcibly evicted in the barren areas of Mesopotamia, where most of them died. 300 thousand Armenians have found their refuge in Russia. Some of them settled in the countries of the Middle East, Europe and America.
During the years 1904-1914, Komitas traveled around the Armenian villages of modern Armenia and Turkey, observing and listening to local residents, he recorded over 4,000 peasant songs, which were mostly lost during the Armenian Genocide. Of all the songs recorded by him, only 1,500 works have survived and reached our days.