Description of the attraction
The Mother Armenia monument, located in the very center of Yerevan in the Victory Park, is a symbol of victory and courage of the Armenian people.
Once one of the central streets of the city was called Stalin Avenue. The avenue was built on the site of the Armenian Street previously located here, on which there were one-story and two-story mansions with beautiful gardens. Over time, the gardens were cut down, and five-storey buildings were erected in place of small houses. Stalin, a bronze statue mounted on a high pedestal, looked from the hill to the avenue. In the early 1960s, when Stalin's personality cult was debunked, the bronze statue was removed, and the black pedestal was empty for several years. The landscape composition gradually collapsed, and only in 1967 a sculpture "Mother Armenia" was installed in an empty place. The author of this project was the architect A. Harutyunyan.
The height of the statue "Mother Armenia" itself is 22 m. The monument is made of chased copper. The Yerevan sculpture is a figure of a mother who sheathes her sword. A shield lies at the woman's feet.
A little later, at the base of the monument, the Museum of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia was opened, which displays many interesting exhibits of the Great Patriotic and Karabakh wars: personal belongings and portraits of heroes, weapons and archival documents. Various types of weapons were installed in the immediate vicinity of the Mother Armenia monument. In front of the monument at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Eternal Flame burns around the clock.
