President visits Olympic Village in Yerevan

Accompanied by Gagik Tsarukyan, President of the National Olympic Committee of Armenia (ARMNOC), President Serzh Sargsyan visited today an Olympic Village being built in capital’s administrative district of Davtashen. The president familiarized himself with the course of construction and the conditions of the 7500 sq. m sports basement designed for more than 300 athletes. The construction of the Olympic Village started in 2013 and will finish at the end of September 2015. After the opening, the ARMNOC administration will also move here. During the tour at the sports basement, Armenia’s president was presented the gymnasiums for wrestling, judo, taekwondo, boxing, weightlifting and team sports and their capabilities, as well as the centers for sports medicine and anti-doping service. It was mentioned that at the up to date national team center will operate gymnasiums for individual, physical, team, as well as for water sports, and the hotel building will house approximately 320 athletes. Apart from professional gymnasiums, the sports basement will have a swimming-pool, outdoor sports grounds and playing grounds. According to the officials, the Olympic Village will provide all the necessary conditions for training.

Later on, President Serzh Sargsyan visited Yerevan Ararat Brandy-Wine-Vodka Factory. Accompanied by the owner of the factory, Gagik Tsarukyan, the founder of Multi Group Concern, Armenia’s president toured Ararat, familiarized himself with the reconstruction and re-equipment works aimed at the modernization of the factory, the capabilities of the new bottling lines and with the volumes of raw materials expected from grape purveyance. Serzh Sargsyan also visited an administrative building of Shustovian period that has been transformed into a museum and Shustovian historical cellars where old technologies and receipts are kept and displayed, together with museum exhibits and the ages-old traditions of Armenian cognac production restored from archives.