HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

II millennium BC

State index: 1.3.1

The fortress is located on Keri Street, on the high, tongue-like promontory on the left bank of the Hrazdan River, about 500 m west of the building of the Yerevan computer research and development institute, in a densely built-up environment. The small fortress served as a transitional station between the Red Fortress from the Bronze Age and the Tsitsernakaberd fortress. On the northern and southern heights of the promontory and in the concave depression between them is the settlement, where remains of walls and buildings have been preserved. On the southern peak there stands a rectangular-plan monumental structure (20 x 10 m), the 2 m thick  walls of which are lined with massive sandstones with a gravel filling.

Below the fortress, on the left bank of the Hrazdan River, about 80 m above the river bed, there stands the  “New Arabkir-1” (“Dzoraberd-1”) cave-dwelling (II millennium BC, XIV-XVII centuries AD, State index: 1.3.1.1). It is a hall measuring 3 x 4.8 x 3.2 m, with the entrance from the west. In 1975 the expedition of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the ASSR (head of the expedition: Benik Yeritsyan) conducted research here. Fragments  of vanakat (obsidian) items, bone awl, sand-stone polisher, late medieval coarse and glazed bowls, as well as  iron tools were found.

“Scientific Research Center of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO

Yerevan Municipality