By the initiative of the Writers Union of Armenia with the assistance of the Ministry of Education and Science and Ministry of Culture, Museum of Tumanian, State Language Inspectorate, Yerevan Municipality, National Library of Armenia, Yerevan State University, various social organizations, universities and schools Birthday of H. Tumanyan starts with this unique social movement.

In this initiative Publishing House Zangak-97, which allocated about 2000 books, as well as the shop Bukinist, which provided a very interesting literature participated. This initiative was supported by the U.S. Embassy in Armenia, providing English-speaking illustrated books for children and the Armenian Cultural Center of Iran, which provided with translated literature by 500 contemporary authors. In addition, the center has provided 5 universities of Armenia with dictionaries, encyclopedias, university textbooks and manuals.

Yerevan State University organizes several events on February 19th: at the Faculty of Armenian Philology a reading room will be opened, joint efforts of the Faculty of Journalism and the Museum of Tumanyan will help to organize a scientific workshop, where this ceremony will be held from 12:15 to 13:00. By the way, the donation of books will be done in theatrical form. Writers� Union of Armenia, Yerevan State University will present 500 books, 300 of which are provided for students, 100- Yerevan State University Library, and 100- for the newly formed reading room. The publishing house, in its turn, will allocate 100 books and YSU Library-125 books, - said YSU Cultural Center Director Karine Davtyan.

As President of Writers Union of Armenia Levon Ananyan said, the idea of gifting books appeared in October, when the writers celebrated the Tumanyan Days in his native village Dsegh. The event is mainly served by the middle and older generation, they read poems, while the students silently stood united. When we asked them why they did not read, maybe they do not like Tumanian, the children said that they had no books,- said Mr. Ananyan somehow embarrassed, adding that the books are published, but in particular do not reach the readers in the provinces.

Schools and orphanages of Armenia will be provided with 10 000 items of books, both original and translated. Another 2000 books will become the property of the Armenian Army libraries, and from his personal archive Levon Ananian will donate 3000 books to his native school # 1 in the village Koghb, the graduate of which he is.

Literature is the basis of schools and the school is the content of the literature. We want to move from a dead point and circulate it within the framework of 10 days of native language,- said Mr. Ananian.