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Yerevan State University, Kentron District: A. Poghosyan 1997 General José de San Martín: Argentine Republic School no. 76, Baghramyan Avenue, Kentron District: 1998 Leonid Engibaryan: Yerevan Circus, Kentron District: Levon Tokmajyan Aslan Mkhitaryan 1999 Anania Shirakatsi: Yerevan State University, Kentron District: Aram Gharibyan 1999 Andranik
The administrative building of Kentron district Poplavok lake at the Circular Park. After Armenia fell under Soviet rule between 1920 and 1921, Yerevan became the first among the cities in the Soviet Union for which a general plan was developed. The "General Plan of Yerevan" developed by the academic Alexander Tamanian, was approved in 1924. It ...
Abovyan Street (Armenian: Աբովյան փողոց), is a street at the central Kentron district of the Armenian capital Yerevan. [1] It was known as Astafyan Street between 1868 and 1920. [2] The street runs from the central Republic Square to the statue of prominent Armenian writer Khachatur Abovian (1809–1848), who the street is named ...
Khachatur Abovyan Park (Armenian: Խաչատուր Աբովյանի Պուրակ Khachatur Abovyani Purak), is a park located in the Kentron district of Yerevan, Armenia, at the north of Abovyan Street. It forms the starting point of the Abovyan Street. The Yerevan State Medical University is located at the southern edge of the park.
In spring 1962, the statue of Stalin was removed, with one soldier being killed and many injured during the process, and in 1967, the statue of Mother Armenia, designed by Ara Harutyunyan, was installed in its place. [1] The prototype of "Mother Armenia" was a 17-year-old girl Genya Muradian.
Freedom Square General view. The Freedom Square or Liberty Square (Armenian: Ազատության հրապարակ, Azatut'yan hraparak), also known as Opera Square and, formerly, Theatre Square (Թատերական հրապարակ, T'aterakan hraparak) until 1991, is a town square located in Kentron (Center) district of Yerevan, Armenia.
It is located in the Kentron District (Central District) of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, and is one of the largest religious buildings in the South Caucasus along with the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi (known as the Sameba Cathedral). Adjacent to the General Andranik metro station, it is visible from many areas of Yerevan.
The Blue Mosque, or Gök Jami, is the only intact mosque remaining of the eight that had once stood in Yerevan. It was built in 1766 during the reign of Hussein Ali. In 1952 it was turned into a museum about the history of Yerevan, but was restored and re-opened as a functioning mosque during the mid-1990s.