MONUMENTS
A MONUMENT TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
1967
State index 1.3.10
Architects: Jim Torosyan and Sargis Gurzadyan
It
is located on the Kanaker plateau, at the beginning of the Azatutyun (Freedom) Avenue.
It was constructed according to the project of Jim Torosyan and Sargis
Gurzadyan in 1967. It is a
completion of rectangular platforms with two different axis and flatness, and
from the upper one on the left side rises a 50-meter tetrahedral obelisk ending
in a golden leaf. On the lower parts of the seats signs of eternity are
carved. The monument is already considered one of the pivotal symbols of the
capital city. The memorial stands towards the Azatutyun Avenue and the Tamanyan
Street, while the obelisk itself was installed the way it stands exactly on the
axis of the Tamanyan Street. A beautiful view opens on the city and Mount
Ararat from here, due to which the monument also serves as an observatory.
Four
walls rising on the upper platform form a rectangular room without a roof, the
internal surfaces of which are decorated with imitation of medieval khachkars
and their patterns., and the stairs lead to the small monument that ends in
three semicircles reminding itself an Artaxiad border stone. The Cascade was
constructed along the hillside, from the side of the Tamanyan Street,
through which the Azatutyun Avenue connects with the Tamanyan Street and
the city center.
On
the right side of the monument, on the Azatutyun Avenue, it is installed a
small square monument, on which the date of the construction of the monument (ՌՋԿԷ-1967) and
the dedication inscription are engraved both in Armenian and Russian: “TO THE
GREAT OCTOBER, FROM THE REBORN ARMENIAN PEOPLE... A CLEAN SKY AND JUST A RED
SUN BROUGHT BY OCTOBER WINDS.”
The total height of the monument is 65 m. In the area of the monument is also located the memorial complex of repressed Armenians during the Soviet regime years (2008).
“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO
Yerevan Municipality
