Gala night at the State Academic Theater Sundukyan in Yerevan on the 70 th anniversary of People's Artist of the USSR V. Papazian. Actors Theater congratulate hero of the day. Funeral of People's Artist of the USSR Vahram Papazian. Coffin V. Papazian on the stage of the State Academic Theater named Sundukyan. In honor guard at the tomb: Deputy Minister of Culture of the Armenian SSR, S. Gasparian, 1 st Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia A. Kochinyan, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Armenian SSR B. Mouradian and others. The funeral procession passes through the streets of Yerevan. Coffin lowered into the grave.