Khnko Aper Children's Library

National Children's Library named after Khnko Aper
Խնկո-Ապոր Անվան Ազգային Մանկական Գրադարան
Collection
The entrance to the library
Type	National library for children
Established	1933
Location	Yerevan, Armenia
Size	0.5M items
Website	www.natchildlib.org

Officially National Children's Library named after Khnko Aper (Armenian: Խնկո-Ապոր Անվան Ազգային Մանկական Գրադարան (Khnko-Apor Anvan Azgayin Mankakan Gradaran)) is a national children's library in Yerevan, Armenia. It was founded in 1933 and renamed after the famous children's writer Khnko Aper (Atabek Khnkoyan) after his death in 1935. Since 1980, the library is located on Teryan street of Kentron district, next to the Swan lake of the Opera house. The architects of the library building are Levon Ghulumyan and Rouzan Alaverdyan. The library is home to a collection of 500 thousand books. It has large reading saloon with a capacity of 100 seats.^[1]

The library has three more sections for the Chinese, Iranian and German literature.

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The library building

References

^ Public libraries in Yerevan

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Khnko Aper Children's Library