YEREVAN CHRONOLOGY

Card image cap

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

OTHER

1265

The Amenaprkich khachkar (cross stone) was erected in Kanaker in 1265. It is among the few that withstood the devastating earthquake of 1679.

Card image cap

1956

Armenian television started its first broadcast.

Card image cap