MONUMENTS

1956

State index: 1.6.67.1

Sculptor: Yervand Kochar, National Artist of the USSR

The sculpture was initially placed in the center of the round pool in the yard of the Polygraphic Combine (later “Hakob Meghapart” Printing House), on a concrete pedestal. The area was open and the statue was visible for people. In the 1970s, after the construction of a high-rise building on Kirov (now Koryun) Street, the view was closed, the sculpture remained abandoned and forgotten. On March 25, 2017, at the initiative of the RA Ministry of Culture, the sculpture was moved from the backyard to Gevorg Kochar Street, in front of the western side façade of the Drama Theater (now Moskovyan Park), giving new life to the work of the famous sculptor. Before the displacement, the foundation of the sculpture was fixed, the damaged parts were repaired, and a new basalt pedestal was prepared.

The bronze sculpture depicts a back-to-back worker and a female collective farmer holding a torch above their heads in their right hands, creating a unified symbolic character (in 2004 the torch has already been removed). Moreover, only their backs are solid, they are plastically separated from the front sides. The female collective farmer wears a light, simple dress that emphasizes the shape of her body, with a scarf tied on her neck. The facial features are rough. In her left hand she holds a branch overburdened with apples, at her feet is a basket of grapes-symbols of collective farm work. The man is depicted in a short-sleeved shirt with his left hand on his waist. The left leg rests on the mechanism, under the feet is the hammer, the symbol of the labourers’ work.

“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO

Yerevan Municipality