MONUMENTS

1950

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Sculptor: Ara Sargsyan

Architect: Grigor Aghababyan

The bust of Nelson Stepanyan (1913-1944), an Armenian pilot and two-time Hero of the USSR, is installed between Movses Khorenatsi, Grigor Lusavoritch and Zakyan streets, in the central boulevard of the Children’s Park. Authors: sculptor, National Artist of the USSR Ara Sargsyan and Honored Architect of the USSR Grigor Aghababyan.

The bronze bust is placed on a rectangular part of smoothly hewed basalt-made pedestal (total height: 4.25 m) gradually narrowing from top to bottom, which in turn rests on a triple-stepped base with plan dimensions of 3.0 x 3.0 m. The hero is depicted in a pilot’s uniform, his chest is decorated with the medals and orders he was awarded during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).

On the frontal façade are sculpted two stars of the Hero of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin, while there is engraved the decree in Armenian of the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the USSR about erecting bronze statue of double hero N. Stepanyan in his homeland. In the lower part it is engraved in Russian: НЕЛЬСОН СТЕПАНЯН. 1913-1944. The artistic development of the sculpture is realistic, portrait-like, with the emphasized majesty of the heroic figure. It eternalizes the memory of the prominent Armenian who died during the Great Patriotic War.

“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO

Yerevan Municipality