International Student Day

Armenian students celebrate their holiday on November 17International Students’ Day was established on 17 November 1946 at the World Students’ Congress held in Prague in memory of Czech patriotic students.

Of course, this holiday is associated with youth, romance and fun, but its history, which began in Czechoslovakia during the Second World War, is bloody and sad.

On October 28, 1939, in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, Prague students and their teachers demonstrated to mark the anniversary of the formation of the Czechoslovak state (28.10.1918). Units of the occupiers dispersed the demonstration, while a medical student Jan Opletal was shot dead.

The main university of Armenia - Yerevan State University - was founded on May 16, 1919. The university has 110 departments and 3,150 employees, including 1,190 teaching staff, which includes 25 academicians, 130 professors, 700 associate professors and 360 assistant lecturers.

The university has 400 researchers, 250 graduate students and 9,500 students, including 300 students from abroad.