Armenia10 Yerevan (City strolling3)

1. 10 ARMENIA Yerevan

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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

6. Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978) House-Museum

7. 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

8. 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

9. The statue of MesropMashtots (Armenian scholar, enlightener, and creator of the Armenian alphabet), in front of Matenadaran

10. Matenadaran

11. Ervand Kochar Museum Yervant Kotchar (1899-1979) The disaster of war Ervand Kochar Museum David of Sassoun Yervant Kotchar (Yervant Kotcharian 1899-1979)

12. Yervant (Ervand) Kotchar (1899-1979)

13. Mergerian rug museum of rug weaving in Yerevan

15. 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

17. The National Gallery and the History Museum building

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

19. Armenia Marriott Hotel

20. Armenia Marriott Hotel

21. Armenia Marriott Hotel

22. Armenia Marriott Hotel

23. The ministry buildings of Foreign Affairs and Territorial Administration

24. 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

25. The Ministry of Transport and the Government House of Armenia The 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

26. The Ministry of Transport and the Government House of Armenia

27. 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

28. The Ministry of Transport - details

29. The Government House of Armenia

30. The Government House of Armenia

31. The Government House of Armenia -details

35. The dancing water fountains are located at the northeastern forehead of the square in front of the National Gallery

46. Cascade Complex

47. Tamanyan Street and Opera. The Sculpture garden of Cafesjian Center of Arts at Cascade Complex

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