YEREVAN, OCTOBER 4, NOYAN TAPAN. The occasion for the meeting with writer and cinema dramatist Kim Bakshi organized on October 3 at the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University (RAU) was his regular, 6th book on Armenia, Armenian culture and history under the title "Frozen Time" published in Moscow. K.Bakshi is author of 6 books about Armenia. More than 50 documentary and popular science films were shot by his scenarios, including multi-serial documentary "Matenadaran" that has received many awards. In the words of RAU Rector Armen Darbinian, the writer went so deep into the Armenian soul, gave such a bright and talented description of Armenia to the Russian reader that it would be natural to call K.Bakshi a great continuer of Valery Brusov's work in the 20th and 21st centuries. "We can affirm that K.Bakshi with his activity greatly contributed to Russian-language readers' getting to understand our history, our culture and religion," A.Darbinian said. In his turn, K.Bakshi stated: "I write first of all for my soul...I also write for the very people I live among, as I think that the spiritual values, the wealth existing in the Armenian people, in the Armenian history should be accepted, understood and taken into consideration by my own people. I would like many features of the Armenian people to be perceived by our people, too, as I have always considered the Armenian people to be hard-working, educated and spiritual." It is noteworthy that for selfless enlightenment activity of many years, for fruitful work on study of Armenian manuscripts, for huge contribution to popularization of Armenian history and culture, K.Bakshi was awarded Honorable Order of RAU.

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