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Victory Park, Yerevan

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between 1983 and 1985 the park was closed for major restoration works. On May 9, 1985, the opening of the Heroes Alley and the Unknown Soldier's Tomb took place near the Mother Armenia complex, on the 40th anniversary of the Great Victory at the World War II. In 1989, a new
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was opened on the eastern portion of the park. In 1958, the construction of the Arevik artificial lake designed by architect Hovhannes Hakobyan was launched, and completed in 1961, while in 1959, a restaurant called
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After the war, the Victory Park was opened on November 29, 1950, at the 30th anniversary of the Sovietization of Armenia. On the same day, a 17-meters high copper statue of
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The construction of the park was launched during the late 1930s as the "Arabkir city park", within the frames of the development of the
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was erected in the park, while the basalt-stoned pedestal of the statue was designed by another People's Artist of the USSR
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In 1962, the statue of Stalin was dismantled, and replaced by the monumental statue of
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was installed at the amusement park replacing the old one.
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neighbourhood at the north of Yerevan; the capital of the
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National University of Architecture and Construction
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Urban park
Armenia
Kanaker-Zeytun District
Coordinates
40°11′45″N 44°31′11″E / 40.19583°N 44.51972°E / 40.19583; 44.51972
Yerevan City Council
Armenian
public park
Kanaker-Zeytun District
Yerevan
Armenia
Nor Arabkir
Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
Great Patriotic War
Soviet
Nazi Germany
Eastern Front
World War II
Joseph Stalin
People's Artist of the USSR
Sergey Merkurov
Rafayel Israyelian
Mother Armenia
Ara Harutyunyan
Ministry of Defence
amusement park
stork
ferris wheel
The monumental statue of Joseph Stalin which was replaced by the statue of Mother Armenia

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