MONUMENTS
THE NORTHERN ENTRANCE OF YEREVAN
1987
State index: 1.2.16
Architect: Garnik Ghambaryan
It is located at the beginning of the Sevan highway, at the Avan-Kanaker road junction. It is made of red tuff, and is installed on a multi-stepped platform paved with basalt. The facets of the cube-shaped obelisk are decorated with geometrical and vegetal sculptures resembling a human face. It is engraved YEREVAN in cuneiform characters, in Armenian and foreign languages on the facet dimensions. It symbolizes the northern entrance to the capital city.
“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO
Yerevan Municipality
At the beginning of the Sevan highway, at the Avan-Kanaker road junction
