MONUMENTS
MEMORIAL “NO TO WAR” (“LET THERE NEVER BE A WAR”)
1977
State index: 1.12.10.4
Architect: Felix Zargaryan
Sculptor: Vahan Khachikyan
The monument is located at 2 Azatutyan Avenue, in one of the alleys of the Victory Park. It was built in 1974 and installed in 1977. The authors of the sculpture are the architect Felix Zargaryan and the prematurely dead sculptor Vahan Khachikyan, whom the Soviet Committee for the Protection of Peace posthumously awarded a commemorative medal in 1975.
In the center of the basalt-paved round platform rises a monumental sculptural composition made of the Armavir orange tuff. It consists of uplifted hands with pressed fists and open palms. On one of the side stones of the monument’s base, it is engraved both in Armenian and Russian: “LET THERE NEVER BE A WAR, LET NO ONE LOSE A SON”. On another stone, the name of the sculptor is engraved: VAHAN KHACHIKYAN.
The height of the sculpture is 8.2 m, it looks like a tree with broken branches. This is how the author imagined and interpreted the war. Huge bare, muscular arms seem to cry out the horrors of war and call for peace. The expressiveness of the hands is more emphasized by the contrast between their slipperiness and the less smoothness of the base stones. The monument is a vivid example of anti-war propaganda.
“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO
Yerevan Municipality
