Tigran Avinyan spent $2 million in 1 day: "Zhoghovurd"

"Zhoghovurd" writes: "For the organization and implementation of events planned within the framework of the "Erebuni-Yerevan 2807" celebration, 754 million 690.895 AMD, almost 2 million USD, has been allocated from the 2025 budget of Yerevan city. This was reported by the Yerevan Municipality in response to a request.

If we accept the indicators expressed by the mapchecking.com website as fact, we will notice that 54 thousand 949 people will fit within the markings depicted in the picture of Republic Square, which means that on average there are about 1.5 people per square meter. This indicator will be in the event that the square is completely crowded.

And if the crowd had been less dense, the number of people gathered in the square would have been 16,161.

It was not possible to find information about the number of concert participants in open sources, which raises a logical question: out of the 1 million 144 thousand citizens living in Yerevan, which makes up almost half of the population of Armenia, how many attended the concert where Tata Simonyan and Lyubov Uspenskaya performed?

We learn from the Armeps.am platform that the Yerevan Municipality has signed a contract with "Factory Production" LLC, which has taken over the organization of large events as a monopoly, for the organization of the event worth 332 million 934 thousand 895 drams or 865 thousand dollars.

We have studied the Yerevan Municipality’s state purchases and recorded that taxpayers paid the “Karen-Sevak” band 10 million 666 thousand drams for playing at the event, the “Malkhas Jazz Trio” band paid 1 million 269 thousand drams for the performance, and 53 million drams were allocated under another contract signed for the organization of the event. The “Nemra” band was paid 2 million 750 thousand drams for the concert, “Reincarnation” – 5 million drams, and the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra 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 a rock concert, and the 30-minute performance of the Vahagn Hayrapetyan Trio cost 825 thousand drams. Host Vahe Khanamiryan was paid 834 thousand drams for hosting the jazz concert from 12:00 to 21:00.

34 million 800 thousand drams have been allocated for the preparation of pavilions in various squares of Yerevan.

The Artsakh State Jazz Orchestra was allocated 1 million 210 thousand drams for a 30-minute performance.

The 30-minute performance of the "Bambir" group cost 2 million drams.

Benny Benassi's 90-minute performance at Diana Abgar Square cost 35 million 750 thousand drams.

The 30-minute performance of the "Tambata" band in the same square cost 1 million drams.

The 30-minute performance of the "Lab Eli" group cost 1 million 800 thousand drams.

The band "Kami Friends" was paid 2 million 300 thousand drams for a 30-minute performance.

"This is not all, some of the contracts have passed unnoticed into the encyclopedia of state procurement under the name of the subject of procurement "work" or "services." However, taking a moment to step back from these numbers, let's imagine how much could have been done with this amount of money."

Details in the newspaper issue.