The fund drive organized by the U.S. Central Committee set itself the goal of raising a quarter of a million dollars by the AGBU’s twenty-fifth anniversary in 1931. If the goal was fulfilled, Nubar pledged to contribute another $100,000.43 The fund was given the name of its biggest donor, Boghos Nubar. On the Central Committee’s suggestion, it was also decided that the future village would be called Nubarashen. The Soviet authorities soon made it known that they had reservations about the name; their tendency was to name Armenia’s cities and villages after Communist luminaries. In September 1928, Yerevan sent the AGBU a telegram informing it that the name of the village would be chosen by its future inhabitants.44 Nubar asked his colleagues on the central board to attach no importance to the question of the name, acquiesce to Yerevan’s conditions, and carry on with the drive to raise the money needed to build the village.45 The protests of certain board members ... Read all
The Parekordzagan Building in Yerevan, reservd for university professors and other intellectuals (Coll. Bibl. Nubar/Paris).
The AGBU and Soviet Armenia