Lost Armenian school found in Crimea

An Armenian college has been found during reconstruction in Eupatoria, Crimea.

A board with a text “College building, Hovakim Seferian, 1891” was hanging there, according to Krimskaya Gazetta (Crimean newspaper).

According to the paper, Hovakim Seferyan was an Armenian philanthropist who funded the construction of girl’s sector of the parish college on Caucasian street as well as the construction of Armenian-Gregorian church and other buildings. According to Eupatorian regional ethnographer in the second half of the 19th century a new elementary college was built in the place of the former Armenian school and the latter was lost and now found in the court of St. Nikoghayos temple.

The representatives of the Armenian community are going to place the found board on the building of the parish school that will soon start its work. This school has started operating still 20 years ago. That time it was operating in the building of school N2, the paper reported.