YEREVAN CHRONOLOGY
2024
Yerevan's New Plan Is Ready
After eight months of development, Yerevan's new General Plan is ready.
The General Plan is being digitized in parallel, which implies ongoing changes. The document has gone through many stages of adjustment, comparisons, and filling in gaps.
Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan has repeatedly emphasized the importance of open and transparent presentation of the architectural planning assignment for each individual land plot on the GIS map in the near future.
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1959
The opening of the David of Sassoun statue (sculptor Yervand Kochar) took place in the square near the railway station.
1513-1735
During Ottoman-Persian Wars Yerevan “changed hands” 14 times. Western Armenia fell into the neighboring Ottoman hands, while Eastern Armenia stayed part of Safavid Iran.
