YEREVAN, APRIL 10, NOYAN TAPAN. Partial repair work is underway at Erebuni historical-acheological preserve-museum with 7 million drams (about 22 thousand USD) allocated from the RA state budget. In particular, the passage, lavatory, electric power lines of the fortress are being repaired, and it is envisaged to build a new water-pipe. The director of the preserve-museum Ashot Piliposian told NT correspondent that the design of repairs of the stronghold's wall is being done now. According to him, the repair work is a large-scale one and will be completed in 1-2 years. Besides, improvement of the preserve will start soon with the participation of students of the Faculty of History of Yerevan State University. A. Piliposian said that electromagnetic examination of the town district of the fortress will start in late April in order to find out if there are any undergroun structures in this section, and if so, how they are arranged. In his words, no excavations have been carried out in this site so the research will allow to determine the section of the fortress where excavatio can be done.

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