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Mother Armenia (Armenian: Մայր Հայաստան, romanized: Mayr Hayastan) is a female personification of Armenia. Her most public visual rendering is a monumental statue in Victory Park overlooking the capital city of Yerevan , Armenia.
Victory Park, Kanaker-Zeytun district, replaced with the current statue of Mother Armenia: Sergey Merkurov: Rafael Israelyan: 1962–1990 Karl Marx: near the State Engineering University of Armenia, Kentron district: Artashes Hovsepyan Seda Petrosyan - 1990's Kamo
After the war, the Victory Park was opened on November 29, 1950, at the 30th anniversary of the Sovietization of Armenia. On the same day, a 17-meters high copper statue of Joseph Stalin designed by People's Artist of the USSR Sergey Merkurov was erected in the park, while the basalt-stoned pedestal of the statue was designed by another People ...
The Mother Armenia monument is a monumental statue in Victory Park overlooking the capital city of Yerevan. Its construction started in 1950 alongside a statue of Joseph Stalin. After the death of the latter, his statue was removed and replaced in 1967 by the Mother Armenia monument.
In 1967, Harutyunyan implemented one of his main monumental projects, the Mother Armenia monumental statue that was installed in the Victory Park in Yerevan. It is the largest monument in Armenia: its height together with the pedestal is 54 m, the height of the statue itself, made from hammered copper, is 22 m, and it weighs 22 tons. [13]
The monumental statue of Mother Armenia is a female personification of the Armenian nation, erected in 1967, replacing the huge statue of Joseph Stalin in the Victory park. Komitas Pantheon is a cemetery opened in 1936 where many famous Armenians are buried, while the Yerablur Pantheon, is a military cemetery where over 1,000 Armenian martyrs ...
The name of the neighborhood originates from the towering monument inside of Victory Park, which can be seen throughout large parts of Yerevan. [1] The original monument at this site was a 17 meter tall Stalin, unveiled in 1950, [1] which was replaced with a statue of Mother Armenia in 1967, which is still Yerevan's tallest monument. [2]
The Cascade (Կասկադ in Armenian) is a building complex in Yerevan, Armenia. It includes terraced gardens connected by extensive staircases, and includes the Cafesjian Museum of Art . Originally planned in the 1920s, some building was undertaken in the 1980s, but construction was suspended several times until 2002.