SQUARES AND PARKS

2012

Located in the first district of the Nor Nork administrative region, on Fridtjof Nansen Street.

The main area of the garden is separated from Gay Avenue by the Suren Nazaryan Square, where a monument to Gay (Hayk Bzhshkyants) is installed on a high pedestal (equestrian statue, 1977, sculptor - Suren Nazaryan, architect - Sargis Gurzadyan).

As part of the events dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate, High Commissioner for Refugees in the League of Nations, and great friend of the Armenian people Fridtjof Nansen, based on the statement dated 23.11.2011 by the chairman of the Nansen Foundation, writer, and literary critic Felix Bakhchinyan, in 2011 the Yerevan Municipality discussed the creation of a Nansen museum in the park of the 1st district of Nor Nork. The proposal was approved.

In 2012, construction of the memorial complex began in the central part of the garden with the laying of the foundation for the Fridtjof Nansen Museum (architect - Albert Sokhikyan). Then, a small Church of St. Mary and a priest's house were built nearby (architects - Albert and Artashes Sokhikyans, builder - Yuri Avagyan). The construction was financed by Honored Doctors of the Republic of Armenia Karlen and Sara Yesayans. The museum opening and church consecration took place on October 12, 2014.

The museum displays books, films, photographs, sculptures (by Levon Tokmajyan) and other materials related to the life, scientific and humanitarian activities of Fridtjof Nansen. A separate section is dedicated to the life and work of Karlen and Sara Yesayan.

About thirty sculptural samples (khachkar, sculpture, etc.) dedicated to the history of the Armenian people, prominent Armenians, and friends of the Armenian people are installed on the territory of the memorial complex. There are sculptures of George Byron (2004, sculptor - Hayk Tokmajyan), Fridtjof Nansen (2011), “Nansen Passport”, “Journalist” and others.

Among the sculptures installed in the garden:

“Franz Werfel” - 2004, tuff, sculptor - Arsen Avetisyan

“Jangir-aga” - 2004, tuff, sculptors - Artik and Andranik Kocharyan

“My Heart in the Mountains” - 2004, tuff, sculptor - Barseg Harutyunyan

“Angels” - 2022, tuff, sculptor - Aleksan Babayan

“Ararat” - 2022, sculptor - Levon Tokmajyan

"Nikolai Ryzhkov" - 2004, sculptor - Levon Tokmajyan

“Support” - 2022, sculptor - Aleksan Babayan and others.

The area occupied by the park is 56,644.31 square meters, and it is well-maintained and cared for.

“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO

Yerevan Municipality