Mother armenia

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The monument to Mother Armenia

Mother Armenia ( Armenian Մայր Հայաստան Majr Hajastan , Russian Мать-Армения ) is a monument in Victory Park to the Armenian capital Yerevan . It consists of a military museum, a tomb of the unknown soldier and a statue.

history

During the Stalin era , the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia, Grigor Haroutounian , and members of the government built a huge and glorifying monument to the dictator. The statue was sculpted by Sergei Merkurov , the chiselling of the base goes back to the architect Raphaël Israëlian . As a pedestal, the latter designed a monument as important as the statue that bears it. The interior of the plinth is modeled on a church-like design and inspired by the Saint Hripsime Church in Etschmiadzin . The monument was inaugurated on November 29, 1950. The Stalin statue was dismantled in the spring of 1962 and replaced in 1967 by the one still standing today, a work by Ara Haroutyounian.

Characteristics

The location of the monument in Victory Park on one of the hills of Yerevan is intended to give the feeling that Mother Armenia is watching over the entire city. It occupies an area of ​​3,000 m² in the heart of the great Yerevan Park. The 36 meter high base houses a museum on five floors, the military museum of the Ministry of Defense . It is primarily dedicated to the heroism of the 650,000 Armenians who took part in World War II and the soldiers of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict . The statue itself has a size of 24 meters, the total height is 51 meters.

See also

Web links

Commons : Mother Armenia  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Rick Ney: "Yerevan". (PDF; 6.8 MB) In: Tour Armenia . ArmeniaNow.com, 2007, p. 56 , accessed March 16, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Razmik Panossian, The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars , Hurst & Co., Londres, 2006, ISBN 978-1-85065-788-0 , S. 349th
  3. ↑ Seda Mavian, Arménie , coll. "Guides Evasion", Hachette, Paris, 2006, ISBN 978-2-01-240509-7 , page 84.

Coordinates: 40 ° 11 ′ 42.9 "  N , 44 ° 31 ′ 29.3"  E