Victory Park and Statue of Mother Armenia

Coming in at number two on the list of the most beautiful historical sites in Amerina is Victory Park and Statue of Mother Armenia.

Victory Park is a public park in the Kanaker-Zeytun District of Yerevan, Armenia's capital. The park's creation began in the late 1930s as the "Arabkir city park," as part of the building of the Nor Arabkir neighborhood to the north of Yerevan, the capital of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. The park was renamed "Victory Park" after the Great Patriotic War to commemorate the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front of World War II.

Following the war, the Victory Park was dedicated on November 29, 1950, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Armenia's Sovietization. On the same day, a 17-meter-high copper statue of Joseph Stalin created by People's Artist of the USSR Sergey Merkurov and a basalt-stoned pedestal designed by another People's Artist of the USSR Rafayel Israyelian was constructed in the park.

The Stalin statue was demolished in 1962 and rebuilt in 1967 by the colossal Mother Armenia statue created by architect Ara Harutyunyan.

Mother Armenia is a feminine embodiment of Armenia. Her most visible visual representation is a massive statue in Victory Park overlooking Yerevan, Armenia's capital city. Mother Armenia is a statue that represents peace through strength. It may remind viewers of some of Armenian history's important female leaders, such as Sose Mayrig and others, who picked up arms to assist their husbands in their confrontations with Turkish forces and Kurdish irregulars. It also reflects the high importance and significance placed on older female members of an Armenian household.

Location: Yerevan