MONUMENTS
MONUMENT TO VICTOR HAMBARDZUMYAN
2009
Sculptor: Tariel Hakobyan
This is the monument to the world-famous
Armenian astronomer, astrophysicist, author of a new cosmological concept,
founder and director (1946-1988) of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory of
the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, academician of the Academy of
Sciences of the Armenian SSR and the USSR, President of the International
Astronomical Union (1961-1964), foreign member of the Academies of Sciences of
several countries, National Hero of Armenia (1994) Victor Hambardzumyan
(1908-1996).
The monument is installed at the end of
Abovyan Street, in the Student Park (formerly Lukas Lukasyan Park, 1924), next
to the building of the Yerevan Observatory (1926, architect: Alexander
Tamanyan). It was erected in the place of the monument to Lukas Lukasyan, the
Bolshevik revolutionary and founder of the Communist Youth Union of Armenia,
which was relocated in the 1990s (sculptor: Suren Stepanyan, 1934).
The authors are sculptor Tariel Hakobyan and
architect Hayk Asatryan.
The solemn opening of the monument took place
on December 15, 2009. The project was implemented by the Jubilee Commission for
the 100th anniversary of Victor Hambardzumyan's birth.
The monument is cast in bronze, it has a
height of 3.20 m. The low platform, symbolizing the galaxy, is engraved with
the lines “INACCESSIBLE, REMOTE AND UNINTERRUPTED CREATOR” by
the great Armenian thinker, theologian, poet, philosopher, and saint of the
Armenian Apostolic Church, Gregory of Narek (10th century).
“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO
Yerevan Municipality
