MONUMENTS
MONUMENT TO ALEXANDER SHIRVANZADE
1958
Sculptor: Ara Harutyunyan
Architect: Fenix
Darbinyan
The bust of the Armenian writer, prose
writer, playwright Alexander Shirvanzade (1858-1935) is located in the Arabkir
administrative district of Yerevan, in front of School No. 21 named after
Alexander Shirvanzade. The monument was erected in 1958. Alexander
Shirvanzade's work is one of the highest achievements of Armenian realist
literature, it initiated a new period in the history of Armenian artistic
thought, in particular, psychological prose and dramaturgy.
Vagharsh Vagharshyan street
