Today marks the 115th anniversary of Armenian poet, writer and public activist Yeghishe Charents.

A series of commemorative events will kick off with a march from the Charents House-Museum towards the Charents memorial.

An exhibition of portraits of the writer, accompanied by music and recitations, will open at the Writers House in Yerevan today.

Yeghishe Charents was born Yeghishe Soghomonyan in Kars (then a part of the Russian Empire) in 1897.