YEREVAN CHRONOLOGY
1959
The opening of the David of Sassoun statue (sculptor Yervand Kochar) took place in the square near the railway station.
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1866
Stage coaches, multi-seat carriages pulled by horses and carrying both passengers and mail, began to regularly shuttle from Erivan to Tbilisi and Kutaisi.
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.
