HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
WATER PASSAGE ON THE HRAZDAN RIVER
1950
State index: 1.6.156
Аrchitect: Rafael Israelyan
Designer: G. Yeghyan
It was built not far from the “Victory” bridge, below the “Hrazdan” stadium, in the valley with five arches. A sculpted cornice runs along the entire length of the passage. On the flatness of the walls, between the angles, there are round, fragmented openings - windows. The building is harmonically weaves with the space surrounding the Hrazdan Gorge and is also used as a pedestrian bridge.
The
passage is covered with roughly hewed gray basalt. The circular arches have slim
fragments of smoothly hewed basalt.
The
dimensions are: 100 x 5 m. It is one of the Soviet-Armenian engineering
structures, realized at a high architectural-artistic level.
“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO
Yerevan Municipality
