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Emin Ter-Grigoriants Printing Office 1880 — 1917 yy․

RA (Republic of Armenia) / Yerevan

Historical Introduction
1880 y․

Press of Emin Ter-Grigoriants (1880 to 1917). In 1880 Emin Ter-Grigoriants founded his private press in a building flanking his house. Prior to this, in January 1876, when he worked as Manager of the press of Zakaria Hakobiants, he signed an agreement with him under which, he was to accumulate his salary for 5 years to take possession of the printing-house. One of the managers of E. Ter-Grigorian’s press was Perj Proshian.

Հակոբյան Թ., Երևանի պատմությունը (1879-1917), Երևան, 1963, էջ 445, 453: For information about E. Ter-Grigorian, also see Հովհաննիսյան Հ., Հայ թատրոնի պատմություն (XIX դ.), Երևան, 1996, էջ 428-432. Abrahamian Emma, Printing-Houses Throughout the Armenian Homeland, in: "Vardzk", 2012, N 6, p. 10.

1883 y․

In 1883 the press started the publication of the “Yerevani Haytararutyunner” (“Announcements from Yerevan”) two-day semi-comic newspaper, which was published in Armenian until 1886. Then censorship made its publishers to issue it in Russian (“Erivanskiye Obyavleniya”) between 1900 and early 1909. From the second quarter of 1909 until 1917, it was published in both these languages.

Նազարյան Ս., Երևանի պարբերական մամուլը (1880-1917), Երևան, 1986, էջ 81-91: Abrahamian Emma, Printing-Houses Throughout the Armenian Homeland, in: "Vardzk", 2012, N 6, p. 10.

This press chiefly published the works and translations of its owner, as well as the reports of the deputy of St. Grigor Lusavorich (Gregory the Enlightener) Church of Yerevan: a total of 46 Armenian and 5 Russian books with a single newspaper.

Abrahamian Emma, Printing-Houses Throughout the Armenian Homeland, in: "Vardzk", 2012, N 6, p. 10.

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