SQUARES AND PARKS

Stepan Shahumyan Square is located in Kentron Administrative District, at the intersection of Vazgen Sargsyan and Khorenatsi Streets.

Formerly known as Cathedral Square, it was the site of the Russian St. Nicholas Church. On September 20, 1931, a monument to Stepan Shahumyan—a Bolshevik revolutionary, political figure, publicist, and leader of the Baku Commune—was erected in the square (sculptor: Sergey Merkurov, architect: Ivan Zholtovsky).