Cameraman Artur Manucharyan

	Aksel Bakunts What role did the film "Zangezur" play in the life of screenwriter Aksel Bakunts and what influence did it have on his fate? Novelist Hovhannes Yeranyan talks about the film "Zangezur" and Aksel Bakunts.
	Spyridon Melikyan Composer Spyridon Melikyan left behind symphonic and choral works. As a conductor, he raised Armenian choral art to a new level. As an ethnographer, he saved a great treasury of folk songs from oblivion. As a scholar, he examined the theoretical issues of Armenian music in a new light. The former seminarian’s entire life was a service to Armenian music and Armenology.
	Hakob Anandyan Hakob Manandyan was one of the great scientists who, by teaching at the Gevorgyan Theological Seminary, had turned that institution into the world's largest center of Armenology. Manandyan spoke more than ten languages, and taught history as well as various languages at the seminary. He wrote more than 150 scientific works in Armenian, Russian, and German. After the seminary was closed, when the first state university was opened, Manandyan became the head of the history department, and then was elected rector of the university. He was one of the founding academicians of the National Academy of Sciences. When the scientist was reminded of his great merit, he replied that all this should be considered a tribute of gratitude to the seminary, where he spent his best years.
	My world In 2010, 15 deacons received priestly ordination and anointing from the Primate of the Aragatsotn Diocese, Bishop Mkrtich Proshyan. Today, they serve in various dioceses in Armenia and the Diaspora. On the 15th anniversary of their ordination, the brothers from the diocese gathered and visited their spiritual father, the illegally imprisoned Archbishop Mkrtich.
	Hrachya Kochar Hrachya Kochar was one of the most influential figures in Soviet Armenia in the 1950s and 1960s. The people called his summer residence in Lusakert the building of the Presidium of the Supreme Council. Here, the leaders of the republic discussed important issues for the country with the writer. Prose writer Hovhannes Yeranyan tells about the life path and legacy of the writer and controversial person Hrachya Kochar.
	The Return of Treasures: Antique Books On the direct initiative of His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, the Karekin I Educational Center was established, based on the personal book collections of Catholicos Vazgen I, Karekin I, and Karekin II. The antiquarian collection was formed in parallel with the collection that already existed in the Mother See. Currently, there are two collections of antiquarian books in Holy Etchmiadzin. In total, before the enthronement of His Holiness the Patriarch, the Mother See had approximately 2,000 units of antiquarian literature. Over the past 25 years, the two collections have been replenished with approximately 960 units. In 2021, the Matenadaran was established in the Mother See. A magnificent new building was built under the direction of His Holiness Karekin II. The two-story building houses the book depositories and auxiliary rooms, the administrative part, the reading room, including the reading room for antiquarian books. The collection of antiquities kept in the Matenadaran of the Mother See has 703 specimens, 620 of which arrived in Etchmiadzin during the reign of Catholicos Karekin II.
	The Return of Treasures: Manuscripts The manuscript collection of Holy Etchmiadzin has been replenished with 123 manuscripts through the efforts of Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians. Now the manuscript collection of the Mother See is the second largest in Armenia after the Mashtotsyan Matenadaran. After the renovation of the Holy See, special cabinets were installed by special order of His Holiness, where the manuscripts of the Mother See are carefully collected. They are not only kept in the manuscript collection, but also exhibited in the museums of the Mother See, participating in exhibitions taking place in Armenia and the Diaspora.
	Rev. Fr. Narek Sargsyan Father Narek, the spiritual pastor of the Holy Cross Church in Aparan, believes that the leaders are caring and nurturing for every clergyman and believer. They try to smooth out every situation so that the priest’s burden is light so that he can best serve the people. When he had a problem, the priest of the workshop immediately gave his consent. He believes that when priests are doing well, spiritual fathers encourage them so that they can achieve great success. He graduated from the priest training course and was ordained a year ago as the spiritual pastor of Aparan and several neighboring villages.
	Miss Gayane The next program in the series “In the Pavilion: Around Literature and Art” is dedicated to a unique mystery in the history of Armenian theater: a 19th-century theater actress who was famous as Miss Gayane. After gaining great fame, it is rumored that she is actually not a woman, but a man. She played for only one year, appeared on stage in only four roles, and left the theater. The program tries to answer the question: was that brilliant actress actually a woman and the victim of a conspiracy, or was she really a man?
	Return of the treasures Through the mediation and administration of His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, 32 reliquaries have been brought to Holy Etchmiadzin in the last quarter of a century: right-shaped, cross-reliquaries, and reliquary vaults. They contain relics of the Armenian Apostolic Church and pan-Christian saints. In 25 years, the treasury of the Mother See's relics has been enriched with rare and exclusive relics.
	Father Vazgen Hovhannisyan Father Vazgen Hovhannisyan has been serving at the St. Mesrop Mashtots Church in Oshakan, Aragatsotn Diocese, for about six years. Before that, he served in Yeghegnadzor, where he began to engage in cross-stitching. The church has greatly helped him in his creative life. After searching for a suitable place for cross-stitching with the diocesan Primate, Bishop Mkrtich Proshyan, they stopped at the area adjacent to the church, where the priest works today. The father presented the spiritual service, rights, responsibilities, and the relationship between spiritual leaders and priests.
	Paruyr Sevak Almost half a century has passed since Paruyr Sevak's tragic car accident. To this day, suspicions have not disappeared that the car accident was an attempt to kill the writer. Novelist Hovhannes Yeranyan tries to answer the question: was the car accident an accident or a premeditated murder?

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