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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.
The Mother Armenia (Armenian: Մայր Հայաստան Mayr Hayastan) monumental statue is a female personification of Armenia, located in the city of Gyumri. It resembles the monumental complex of Mother Armenia in the capital Yerevan. It was erected in 1975 on a hill west of Gyumri city.
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. Inside the 50-metre-tall pedestal is the Mother Armenia Museum of the Ministry of Defense. When first built, it was a military museum containing exhibits about World War II.
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
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The park features the Mother Armenia statue that houses a military museum dedicated to the history of World War II and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The Cascade consists of five hillside terraces connected with 572 steps.
The statue of Mesrop Mashtots and his disciple Koryun by Ghukas Chubaryan was erected in 1962 (first in gypsum, then in basalt in 1967) [1] below the terrace where the main building stands. [57] From 1963 to 1967, full-body basalt statues of six medieval Armenian scholars, Toros Roslin , Grigor Tatevatsi , Anania Shirakatsi , Movses Khorenatsi ...
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]