MONUMENTS

1995

State index: 1.6.118

Architect: Aslan Mkhitaryan

Sculptor: Levon Tokmajyan

Reopened in 2021. on March 15

The monument of Leonid Yengibaryan (1935-1972), an Armenian circus actor, pantomime master, clown, National Artist of the USSR (1971), is installed on a pedestal in the park holding his name, in front of the Yerevan Circus building. The park was named by the decision of the Yerevan’s Municipality, in April 2020 and then was improved.

The statue was initially placed near the western façade of the old building on the left side of the entrance of the Yerevan Circus located at Agatangeghos Street 1.

In 2012, during the reconstruction of the circus building, the statue was removed to the opposite park and re-installed on the pedestal on March 15, 2021 while the reconstruction process of the building had not yet been completed.

The monument is made of bronze, has a height of 2.5-2.6 m, is placed on a 1 m high roughly hewed pink basalt base.

Yengibaryan is depicted in full height, with his head turned to the left, his hands on his shoulders. The details of the clothes are sketched: the short-sleeved shirt, the neckcloth, the trousers.

The monument stands out for the elegance of plastic solutions.

“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO

Yerevan Municipality