Officially National Children's Library named after Khnko Aper ( hy, Խնկո-Ապոր անվան Ազգային մանկական գրադարան (''Khnko-Apor Anvan Azgayin Mankakan Gradaran'')) is a national children's library in

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i ...

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. It was founded in 1933 and renamed after the famous children's writer

Khnko Aper Atabek Khnkoyan ( hy, Աթաբեկ Հովհաննեսի Խնկոյան, 19 October 1870 – 8 October 1935) was an Armenian writer of prose and poetry, who wrote under the pen name Khnko Aper ( hy, Խնկո Ապեր) and specialized in children' ...

( Atabek Khnkoyan) after his death in 1935. Since 1980, the library has been located on Teryan Street in

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, next to the Swan Lake of the

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. The architects of the library building were Levon Ghulumyan and Rouzan Alaverdyan. The library is home to a collection of 500,000 books. It has a large reading room with a capacity of 100 seats.Public libraries in Yerevan
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literature.

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File:Khnko aper library2.jpg, The main entrance to the library File:Խնկո Ապոր անվան հանրապետական մանկական գրադարան.jpg, The library building

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Buildings and structures in Yerevan Libraries established in 1933 Library buildings completed in 1980 Armenian culture

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