YEREVAN, JUNE 1, NOYAN TAPAN. In the opinion of the grandson of one of the most renowned specialists in aircraft designing in the 20th century, Artem Mikoyan, the Armenian people has full right to be proud of the activity of its great son. Businessman Sergei Mikoyan, who is the son of A. Mikoyan's daughter, resides in Moscow, but, in his words, he strives for visiting Armenia as soon as possible. At the June 1 meeting with journalists he said that he remembers his childhood with love, when Russian Armenian artists, public figures gathered at their place. A. Mikoyan, as his grandson witnessed, was a person of exclusive talent and exclusive modesty. In S. Mikoyan's words, in the opinion of many modern specialists, the aircraft designer as early as many decades ago authored such projects, at creation of which anothers are just beginning to work. "Suffice it to say that the first jet-propelled aircraft in the USSR was created by Artem Mikoyan," Sergei reminded. He added that though in the recent years, in the 1990-s, some changes of attitude towards Armenians happened in the Russian environment, nevertheless, people perceive him and his relatives first if all as representatives of Mokoyan family and only then as Armenians. As S. Mikoyan evaluated, in all times in Russia they treated Armenia better than another Caucasian countries.

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