HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
MEMORIAL COMPLEX DEDICATED TO THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
1985
State index 1.7.3
Sculptor: Suren Nazaryan
Architect: Garry Rashidyan
The memorial is located in the park in Sebastia, Naghash Hovnatan, and Armin Wegner streets, on the edge of Sebastia Street.
It
was constructed by the Honored Architect of the Republic of Armenia Garry
Rashidyan. The author of the sculptures is National Artist of the Armenian
Soviet Socialist Republic, sculptor Suren Nazaryan.
It
has a peak-shaped structure. Basalt stairs starting from the street lead
to a sculpture-decorated memorial arch perched on the circular granite-made
four platforms (15 meters in height), which left-sided column sculptures are in
war thematic, and the right-sided, represent topics of peaceful and creative
work. The pedestal of the memorial is edged on both sides with a granite
rectangular low walls. On one of them in Armenian, and on the other one in
Russian are written.
“1945-1985. IT IS DEDICATED TO THE GLORIOUS VICTORY OF THE SOVIET PEOPLE.”
The
middle part of the memorial occupies a pool (about 60 m long territory)
with floor stairs and with fountains. There are bronze sculptures on both sides
of the pool. The left-sided symbolizes “Peace”, and the right-sided “Dragon
Slayer”.
In
parallel with the pool, the stairs from both the right and left sides lead to
the highest part of the memorial, where a triple-arched obelisk on the
semi-circular pedestal rises (height of the central part 8 meters), out of
where opens the scene of the whole complex. The bust of Ararat (Mkhitar)
Elbakyan martyred during the Artsakh Heroic War of 1992 also stands in the
park.
“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO
Yerevan Municipality
