Mkhitar Sebastatsi Educational Complex ( hy, Մխիթար Սեբաստացի կրթահամալիր), is a state-owned school located in the

Malatia-Sebastia District Malatia-Sebastia ( hy, Մալաթիա-Սեբաստիա վարչական շրջան, ), also nicknamed colloquially as Bangladesh, is one of the 12 districts of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, located in the western part of the city. As of the 20 ...

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

, the capital of

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Ox ...

. The school is named after the prominent Armenian scholar and theologian

Mkhitar Sebastatsi Mkhitar Sebastatsi ( hy, Մխիթար Սեբաստացի), anglicized: Mekhitar of Sebaste, it, Mechitar (17 February 1676 – 27 April 1749) was an Armenian Catholic monk, as well as prominent scholar and theologian who founded the Mekhitarist ...

of the 18th century.

Overview

The school was founded in 1984 as School No. 183 by Ashot Dabaghyan,

Ashot Manucharyan Ashot Manucharyan (, born 1954 in Yerevan) is an Armenian educator, democratic socialist politician, and one of the founding members of the Karabakh Committee. After the independence of Armenia from the Soviet Union in 1991, he served as Minister ...

, and

Ashot Bleyan Ashot Shamkhali Bleyan (in Armenian Աշոտ Բլեյան, born in Yerevan, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic on 4 September 1955), is an Armenian politician, educator, government minister and school master. Bleyan graduated from Yerevan State U ...

. The school was granted "experimental" status by the Soviet Armenian Ministry of Education in 1987 and expanded into a complex in 1989. It played a key role in the

Karabakh movement The Karabakh movement ( hy, Ղարաբաղյան շարժում, also the Artsakh movement Արցախյան շարժում) was a national mass movement in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh from 1988 to 1991 that advocated for the transfer of the ma ...

during

perestroika ''Perestroika'' (; russian: links=no, перестройка, p=pʲɪrʲɪˈstrojkə, a=ru-perestroika.ogg) was a political movement for reform within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s widely associated wit ...

and one of its founders Ashot Manucharyan; was a member of the

Karabakh Committee Karabakh Committee ( hy, Ղարաբաղ կոմիտե) was a group of Armenian intellectuals recognized by many Armenians as the ''de facto'' leaders in the late 1980s. The Committee was formed in 1988, with the stated objective of reunification of ...

. Its current principal is Ashot Bleyan.

Structure

The structure of the complex is as follows: *Kindergarten *Primary school *Middle school *High school *Art school for juniors *Art school for seniors *Crafts school for seniors *Sports school *Music and dance school

References

Armenian schools Educational institutions established in 1984 Alternative education Schools in Armenia 1984 establishments in the Soviet Union Schools in the Soviet Union {{Armenia-school-stub