YEREVAN, OCTOBER 30, NOYAN TAPAN. State-public figure, publicist, literary critic Eduard Topchian's memorial plaque opened on October 27 in the address of Kasian 3, Yerevan, where the literary critic lived in 1960-1975. The author of the memorial plaque is architect Samvel Burkhajian. In words of Levon Ananian, the Chairman of the Writers' Union of Armenia (WUA), talent and humane merits are combined in few people, E.Topchian was one of those few. He was the first secretary of the WUA and headed it for 21 years. "E.Topchian headed the WUA in a period of time when the Central Committee of the Communist Party created problems in many issues. It was also a period when great people like Avetik Isahakian, Derenik Demirchian, Nairi Zarian, Stepan Zorian, Gurgen Mahari and others were in the political field, it was not easy to work with them as each of them has his literary views," L.Ananian mentioned. According to prose-writer Perch Zeytuntsian's characteristic, E.Topchian managed to head the WUA wisely and keeping balance. He was engaged in organization works of the WUA as much that there was almost no time for creating. But, as P.Zeytuntsian mentioned, E.Topchian was the first literary critic who presented analyses of Franz Werfel's and Levon Shant's works to the Armenian reader.

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