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near the Yerevan State University, Kentron district: Suren Stepanyan Hayk Asatryan 1939-1941 Sasuntsi Davit: Sasuntsi Davit Square, same artist and location as current Sasuntsi Davit statue which was demolished when sculptor Kochar was arrested by the Soviets, then he was commissioned to place a new one after he was "rehabilitated". Yervand Kochar
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.
Lists of people who disappeared include those whose current whereabouts are unknown, or whose deaths are unsubstantiated: Many people who disappear are eventually declared dead in absentia . Some of these people were possibly subjected to enforced disappearance , but there is insufficient information on their subsequent fates.
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.
The art historian Nona Stepanian argued that its small pedestal set a new trend in statues in Yerevan in which they no longer towered over people and streets with their formidable height. [23] It also inspired the creation of statues of other legendary or mythological figures, such as Hayk and Vahagn, by Karlen Nurijanyan. [24]
This list of missing landmarks in Spain includes remarkable buildings, castles, royal palaces, medieval towers, city gates and other noteworthy structures that no longer exist in Spain, or have been partially destroyed. It does not include walls of cities.
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 sculpture, three meters high, is in the gardens of the Garden of Sendra, in the old town. Translation - To the memory of 1,500,000 Armenians, victims of the 1915 genocide perpetrated by the government of the young Turks in the Ottoman Empire - this memorial is in Arles , Provence , France.