YEREVAN, May 11. /ARKA/. Areximbank-Gazprombank Group closed joint stock company has held a special event on the Victory Day, the bank’s press office reported.
As part of the event the staff was sharing their family photos, documents and stories of the WWII years.
Advisor to the bank’s general director Yelena Markova said that, while going through many photos and stories for the blog on the bank’s website, she found that the grandpas of many staff members had fought to liberate Kerch.
“I have asked myself might it be our grandpas knew each other well, ate out of the same pot and were next to each other in the trenches. Unfortunately, we will never know about this, they are not alive anymore. But when I was ultimately disappointed, a great joy was waiting for me. One of our grandpas is alive, and is going to turn 90 this jubilee month! Of course, we congratulated our veteran and handed him a present, on behalf of the staff. He is our grandpa now,” Markova said.
The veteran’s name is Avetik Simonyan. He was born on May 21, 1925 in Yerevan. He went to fight on the frontline in the age of 18, as part of the Yerevan Infantry Battalion in 1943. Simonyan fought in the Crimea, Astrakhan, Kalmikia and reached the Romanian-Moldavian border. He got wounded in the liberation of Karpaty and was found and rescued by his fellow soldier Mekhak Bejanyan, Markova said.
Markova called on the young generation to collect everything from the winner grandpas and always keep them in hearts.
Areximbank-Gazprombank Group was established in August 1998. In 2007, it became a subsidiary of Russia’s biggest bank, Gazprombank. –0–
