HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
MAIN BUILDING OF YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY
1965
State index: 1.6.90
Architect: Edmond Tigranyan
With the participation of architect G. A.
Zakyan
Located
at 1 Alex Manoogian Street, in the area between Alex Manoogian and Charents
streets, on the left bank of the Getar River.
Founded
on May 16, 1919, by the decision of the government of the First Republic of
Armenia. Due to the lack of a free building in Yerevan, it was opened in the
building of the Commercial School of Alexandropol (now Gyumri) on January 31,
1920. In 1920, it moved to Yerevan to the renovated black building of the
Teachers' Seminary (52 Abovyan Street).
After
the Sovietization of Armenia, on December 17, 1920, it was renamed Yerevan
People's University. It was officially opened on January 23, 1921. The first
rector of the reopened educational institution was the famous historian Hakob
Manandyan. On October 20, 1923, it received the status of a state main
university.
The
university is the first higher education center in the Armenian SSR. In 1930,
based on its faculties, the Polytechnic, Agricultural, Medical, and Pedagogical
Institutes were created. Until the founding of the Academy of Sciences of the
Armenian SSR, it was also the main research center of the republic.
Construction
of the new YSU complex at 1 Alex Manoogian Street began in 1952. In 1965, the
university mostly moved to the newly constructed building. In 1973-1976, the
building for the faculties of philology, foreign languages, and oriental
studies was built, in 1976-1981 - the sports complex, in 1994 - the library
building (architect L. Babayan, author of bas-reliefs V. Ghazaryan).
It
is built with Ani's hewn tuff. Travertine, black and white marble were used for
interior decoration.
In
the main lobby, there are busts of the founding professors of the university -
Hakob Manandyan, Stepan Ghambaryan, Leo (Arakel Babakhanyan), Hrachya Acharyan,
Vahan Artsruni, Manuk Abeghyan.
In
the courtyard, there are a memorial fountain for university students who died
in the Great Patriotic War (architect Romeo Julhakyan), rock carvings moved
from the Ukhtasar historical site of Angeghakot village in Syunik region of RA
(second half of the 4th millennium BC - first half of the 3rd millennium BC), a
khachkar dedicated to the intellectuals and YSU students who died in the
Artsakh liberation war (1996), a monument to Mesrop Mashtots and Sahak Partev
(1943, installed in 2002, sculptor Ara Sargsyan, architect R. Julhakyan), a
statue of Anania Shirakatsi (1999, author Aram Gharibyan), a 13th-century
khachkar in memory of university students who died in the 44-day Artsakh war of
2020.
“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO
Yerevan Municipality
