YEREVAN CHRONOLOGY

1957

Bronze monuments of Hovhannes Tumanyan and Alexander Spendiarov (sculptors Ara Sarkisyan and Ghukas Chubaryan) were erected on the Opera Square.

The statue of the great Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan in Yerevan

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1850

In Yerevan the female school was opened on January 2 and named in honour to St. Hripsime.

The National Gallery of Armenia was founded in 1921 by the decision of the Government of Soviet Armenia, as one of the five departments of the State Museum - the Art Department. Martiros Saryan was appointed the director of the museum. As the first state museum of Armenia, it was officially opened to visitors on August 14, 1921.