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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1906
The first line of the Yerevan horse railroad began started operating, at first along Astafyevskaya (nowadays Abovyan) Street, and later to the railway station.
7TH CENTURY BC
Karmir Blur was the capital of the Transcaucasian provinces of the ancient kingdom of Urartu. The whole area was under development. Irrigation canals were dug, artificial storage ponds were created, and Teyshebayini fortress on Karmir Blur (Red Hill) was founded.
