"Zhoghovurd" newspaper writes.
"754 million 690.895 AMD, almost 2 million US dollars, have been allocated from the 2025 budget of the city of Yerevan for the organization and implementation of events planned within the framework of the "Erebuni-Yerevan 2807" celebration.
Yerevan Municipality informed about this in response to the inquiry of "Zhoghovurd" daily newspaper. If we accept as a fact the indicators expressed by the mapchecking.com website, then we will notice that 54 thousand 949 people will be accommodated within the markings shown in the picture on the Republic Square, which means that there are about 1.5 people per square meter on average.
This indicator will be in the case when the square is completely crowded. And if the crowd was less dense, the number of people gathered in the square would be 16 thousand 161 people. It was not possible to find information about the number of participants of the concert in open sources, as a result of which a logical question arises. How many of the 1 million 144 thousand citizens living in Yerevan, which make up almost half of the population of Armenia, attended that concert, where Tata Simonyan and Lyubov Uspenskaya performed?
"Zhoghovurd" daily newspaper learns from the Armeps.am platform that the Municipality of Yerevan has signed a contract with "Factory Production" LLC, which has taken over the organization of large events like a monopoly, for the organization of the event worth 332 million 934 thousand 895 drams or 865 thousand dollars.
"Zhoghovurd" daily newspaper studied the state purchases of Yerevan Municipality and recorded that taxpayers paid 10 million 666 thousand drams to the "Karen-Sevak" group to play at the event, 1 million 269 thousand drams were paid for the performance of the "Malkhas Jazz Trio" band, and 53 million drams were allocated under another contract signed for the organization of the event.
The band "Nemra" was paid 2 million 750 thousand drams for the concert, "Reincarnation" - 5 million drams, the State Symphony Orchestra of Armenia was paid 10 million drams for playing for 55 minutes. Suren Arustamyan was paid 1 million 160 thousand drams for playing and singing for 30 minutes during the rock concert, the 30-minute performance of the Vahagn Hayrapetyan trio cost 825 thousand drams. The presenter Vahe Khanamiryan was paid 834 thousand drams for conducting the jazz concert from 12:00 to 21:00. 34 million 800 thousand drams were allocated for the preparation of pavilions in different squares of Yerevan. 1 million 210 thousand drams were allocated to the Artsakh State Jazz Orchestra for a 30-minute performance.
The 30-minute performance of the "Bambir" group cost 2 million AMD. The 90-minute performance of Benny Benassi in Diana Abgar Square cost 35 million 750 thousand AMD. The 30-minute performance of the "Tambata" group in the same square cost 1 million drams.
The 30-minute performance of "Lav Eli" group cost 1 million 800 thousand drams. "Kami Friends" band was paid 2 million 300 thousand AMD for a 30-minute performance.
Details in today's issue of the newspaper.
