HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

Beginning of the XX century

State index: 1.6.32

Architect: Vasily Mirzoyan

It is located in front of the central bus station, in a residential development, at the N3 of Tsovakal Isakov Avenue. Already in 1892, the wealthy man Karapet Afrikyan founded a wine and brandy factory here, the products of which were successfully sold in the cities of the Russian Empire. Brandy was also exported to Europe. In the territory of the complex there were located production buildings and a mansion built by the owner of the factory, at the beginning of the XX century. In September of 1921, the Afrikyans’ summer residence hosted a group of Armenian intellectuals, Hovhannes Tumanyan, Leo, Derenik Demirchyan and others, who came from Tbilisi to participate in the session of the Armenian Relief Committee taking place from September 13 to 20. Only the summer residence, two production buildings, and huge wine-cellars have been preserved from the once capacious complex. The latter are engraved into the tuff layer of the ground.

It operates a research institute of viticulture, winemaking, and breeding in the building of the summer house, where a khachkar brought from old Jugha in the 1970s and dedicated in memory of Sukias, made in 1586 by craftsman Hayrapet is ket. Afrikyans’ summer residence is the only preserved example of a suburban house in Yerevan.

“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO

Yerevan Municipality