MONUMENTS

1967

The monument dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution is located on the Kanaker plateau, at the beginning of Azatutyun (Freedom) Avenue. It was constructed according to the project of Jim Torosyan and Sargis Gurzadyan in 1967.

It is a completion of rectangular platforms with two different axis and flatness, and from the upper one on the left side rises a 50-meter tetrahedral obelisk ending in a golden leaf. On the lower parts of the seats signs of eternity are carved.

The memorial stands towards the Azatutyun Avenue and the Tamanyan Street, while the obelisk itself was installed the way it stands exactly on the axis of the Tamanyan Street. A beautiful view opens on the city and Mount Ararat from here, due to which the monument also serves as an observatory. Four walls rising on the upper platform form a rectangular room without a roof, the internal surfaces of which are decorated with imitation of medieval khachkars and their patterns., and the stairs lead to the small monument that ends in three semicircles reminding itself an Artaxiad border stone. The Cascade was constructed along the hillside, from the side of the Tamanyan Street, through which the Azatutyun Avenue connects with the Tamanyan Street and the city center.

On the right side of the monument, on the Azatutyun Avenue, it is installed a small square monument, on which the date of the construction of the monument (ՌՋԿԷ-1967) and the dedication inscription are engraved both in Armenian and Russian: “TO THE GREAT OCTOBER, FROM THE REBORN ARMENIAN PEOPLE... A CLEAN SKY AND JUST A RED SUN BROUGHT BY OCTOBER WINDS.”

The total height of the monument is 65 m. In the area of the monument is also located the memorial complex of repressed Armenians during the Soviet regime years (2008).