YEREVAN CHRONOLOGY
1935
The Yerevan Botanical Garden was founded.
Botanical Park was founded by E. Ghazaryan. Nowadays it occupies 80 ha but before it occupied 105 ha. The garden is 1200-1250 meters high above sea level. It is situated in the semi desert zone of the sharp continental climate. It belongs to the National Academy of RA and includes a research Institute, which makes a great number of researches. Here you can see species of trees and shrubs not only from all the regions of Armenia, but also from Caucasus, North America, China, Korea and the Far East. One section of the Botanical Gardens represents the species of flowers. There are about 1100 species.
OTHER
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.
1921
The National Gallery of Armenia was founded in 1921 by the decision of the Government of Soviet Armenia, as one of the five departments of the State Museum - the Art Department. Martiros Saryan was appointed the director of the museum. As the first state museum of Armenia, it was officially opened to visitors on August 14, 1921.
