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Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country. It has been the capital since 1918, the thirteenth in the history of Armenia. Yerevan was named the 2012 World Book Capital by UNESCO

Statute of Hayk in Yerevan by Karlen Nurinjanyan

Hayk is the legendary patriarch and founder of the Armenian nation. His story is told in the History of Armenia attributed to the Armenian historian Moses of Chorene (410 to 490)

Statute of Hayk in Yerevan by Karlen Nurinjanyan

Hayk is also the name of the Orion constellation in the Armenian translation of the Bible. Hayk's flight from Babylon and his eventual defeat of Bel, was historically compared to Zeus's escape to the Caucasus and eventual defeat of the titans

Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)

House-Museum

97% of the people living in Armenia are Armenians and the remaining small percentage is made up of different ethnic minorities such as the Yazidis, Russians, Ukrainians, Kurds and more

Matenadaran, the Museum of Ancient Manuscripts. It holds one of the world's richest depositories of medieval manuscripts and books

The building is dug into the hill and can withstand a nuclear attack

The statue of Mesrop Mashtots (Armenian scholar, enlightener, and creator of the Armenian alphabet), in front of Matenadaran

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Yervant (Ervand) Kotchar (1899-1979)

Mergerian rug

museum of rug weaving in Yerevan

Though it never took the planed shape of the Grand Square of a perfect city of Tamanyan, Republic Square still can be considered the finest examples of Soviet era architecture as far as squares go.The oval shaped square has a stone pattern in the centre, meant to look like a traditional Armenian rug from above

The National Gallery and the History Museum building

The National Gallery and the History Museum buildingThe buildings around the square are made of rose and white Armenian tufa stones, fortified on a basalt-made ground anchor

Armenia Marriott Hotel

Armenia Marriott Hotel

Armenia Marriott Hotel

Armenia Marriott Hotel

The ministry buildings of Foreign Affairs and Territorial Administration

The square was known as Lenin Square.The statue of the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin was dismantlement in 1990, prior to the independence of Armenia

The Ministry of Transport and the Government House of ArmeniaThe clock of the Government building tower was made in Moscow and transferred to Yerevan in July 1941. The diameter of the clock is 4 meters, the length of the big hand is 188 cm

The Ministry of Transport and the Government House of Armenia

The early buildings (the

Houses of Government, the

Ministry of Communications, and the Marriott Hotel) are fine

example of Neo-Classical

architecture with Armenian hints. The buildings

from later period (the Foreign

Ministry, and Art Gallery) are Modernist

imitations of previous ones

The Ministry of Transport - details

The Government House of Armenia

The Government House of Armenia

The Government House of Armenia -details

The dancing water fountains

are located at the northeastern

forehead of the square in front of

the National Gallery

Cascade Complex

Tamanyan Street and Opera.

The Sculpture garden of Cafesjian

Center of Arts at Cascade Complex

Sound: Armen Darbinyan - Ov sirun, sirun

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