HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

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THE NORTHERN ENTRANCE OF YEREVAN


1987


State index: 1.2.16

Architect: Garnik Ghambaryan


It is located at the beginning of the Sevan highway, at the Avan-Kanaker road junction. It is made of red tuff, and is installed on a multi-stepped platform paved with basalt. The facets of the cube-shaped obelisk are decorated with geometrical and vegetal sculptures resembling a human face. It is engraved YEREVAN in cuneiform characters, in Armenian and foreign languages on the facet dimensions. It symbolizes the northern entrance to the capital city.

 

“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO

Yerevan Municipality




At the beginning of the Sevan highway, at the Avan-Kanaker road junction