MONUMENTS

1990

State index: 1.7.1

Architect: Aslan Mkhitaryan

The "Yerablur" Pantheon of Glory is located in the western part of the city, to the right of the Yerevan-Etchmiadzin highway, on the plateau of the highest hill of the Yerablur range (height: 951 m). It was founded in 1990 to enclose the graves of soldiers who fell in the Artsakh Liberation War. The status of the cemetery was approved by the decree of the Government of Armenia of May 26, 1992. The author of the layout and architectural solutions is the architectural group of Aslan Mkhitaryan's studio. It occupies an area of ​​19.22 ha.

The entrance to the pantheon from Sebastia Street is built in the form of a triumphal arch. On the western side of the territory is the row of command personnel, in the central part are the graves of the fallen of volunteer units, and in the eastern part are the graves of soldiers of military service. The Pantheon contains the remains of freedom fighters who died in the Artsakh Liberation War, after the 1994 ceasefire, soldiers who died in the 2016 four-day and 2020 44-day Armenian-Azerbaijani wars, and subsequent battles, as well as fighters of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia. The Pantheon also contains the remains of General Andranik (transferred from the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, February, 2000), the wife and comrade-in-arms of the prominent figure of the Armenian national liberation movement Aghbyur Serob, Mother Sose (Sose Vardanyan, transferred from Egypt, 1998), and the national heroes of the Republic of Armenia Vazgen Sargsyan, Jivan Abrahamyan, Monte Melkonyan, and Vahagn Asatryan.

In Yerablur there is a monument perpetuating the memory of 39 fighters of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, a memorial stone-monument to the missing freedom fighters, and to the left of the entrance is the St. Vardanants Martyrs Church built on the initiative of Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin I and Vazgen Sargsyan (1998, sponsors: H. and V. Voskanyans, American patrons).