YEREVAN, AUGUST 27, NOYAN TAPAN. An exhibition of postage stamps was held in Beijing on August 8-18 within the framework of the cultural program of the Summer Olympic Games. Stamps, envelopes, postcards, special seals, and coins on sport and Olympic themes were on display. Among collections presented by 179 participants from 24 countries were two collections from Armenia. The collection of Marine Kupalian, a second-year student of Armenian State Institute of Physical Culture, was displayed at the youth contest of stamps, while the collection of her grandfather Juri Kupalian, a professor of a department of the same institute, was presented at the adult contest. Marine's collection on the history of basketball won a gold medal. Yuri Kipalian's collection dedicated to the history of mountaineering received a silver medal.

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