YEREVAN CHRONOLOGY

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1883


The Yerevan Hotel (now "Grand Hotel Yerevan") and the photo studio and workshop of famous photographer Leon from Tbilisi, opened on Astafyevskaya (nowadays Abovyan) Street.


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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.

1967


A monument to the victims of the Armenian Genocide was built on Tsitsernakaberd Hill.