MONUMENTS

State index: 1.12.10.5

Architect: Rafael Israelyan

Tuff-made entrance to the park is the last structure of the Victory Memorial complex, built alongside the Azatutyun avenue, in the former western wall, in the form of a triumphal arch. The entrance was built according to the project of famous architect Rafael Israelyan, 10 years after his death, in 1983.  R. Israelyan made the sketches, and his son, architect Areg Israelyan, completed the project and led the construction.

The gables with the rectangular base of the triumphal arch are connected by a quadruple arches and a fronton. The forms of national architecture and decorative art motives were used in the composition.

The eastern (garden side) and western (front, avenue) façades of the columns are decorated with triangular niches with fanlike ends. On the front side of the fronton are mermaids carved in the middle of them - a sword and sun, below - a lion and a dragon, herbal ornaments. On the eastern façade there are grape sculptures, eagle sculptures, hammer and sickle, ornament belts decorated with herbal motives. On the right upper side of this facade are the initials of the architect's name and surname. 

Built of brown tuff, the stones are diagonal. It stands out with its slenderness and nobleness.

“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO

Yerevan Municipality