With the passage of time it is of course inevitable that the names of many streets in Yerevan have been changed, as the main result is nearly always the same as far as the family historian is concerned. The same is with one of the main streets and favourite one in Yerevan – Hanrapetoutyan street […]
Republic Square
Republic Square is a splendid ensemble of buildings and a monumental structure, designed by the prominent Armenian architect, academician A. Tamanyan in 1926, who also drew up the first general plan of Yerevan and designed many of the city’s buildings, which are now the pride of the Armenian capital. Till the collapse of the Soviet Union the square […]
Amiryan street
Architectural buildings have been traced back to the ancient history of Yerevan and have met the demand and standardization of the time period. Amiryan Street has been considered to be one of the most important and busiest streets of the 20th century, the country administrative buildings were concentrated in there. The street was called Nazarovskaya, […]
Abovyan street in Yerevan
Evidence of ancient city can be found in its history,streets and places, monuments and architectural models which identify the time period. Though Yerevan has been tending to become a European city, due to the number of construction works periodically held in the city, there are still lots of spots that arouse admiration. Abovyan street – […]
Vazgen Sargsyan Street
The best way to avoid the warmest time of the year with high temperatures is to have an hour rest at the urban gardens which requires neither much time nor much money. One of the favorite places of the people in Yerevan is the garden near Shahumian Square, which is an ideal place to control […]
Arami street (Czarskaya)
The history of Arami Street dates back to the ancient history of Yerevan. The street was primarily called Czarskaya, after the period when Nikolay the First Czar from the Russian Empire had been living in a two-stored house located on Czarskaya Street. By the way, people used to call the street Czarsky instead of Czarskaya. […]
Toumanyan street
The street we are going to tell you about is named after the great Armenian poet Hovhannes Toumanyan. Throughout history the street’s name has often changed, and if a book of street names and formulations was created it’d include more than 1000 names. Few people may know that one of the leading Brandy-Wine Factory of Old […]
Tigran Mets Avenue
The avenue begins at the Republic Square of Yerevan. It continuous to Amiryan Street from North to South and becomes a crossing street with traffic flowing from Hanrapetoutyan and Agatangeghos streets to the nearest square of “Ayrarat” cinema and then to Yerevan Railway Station. At the beginning of the street there are some 2-3 stored residential buildings […]
Pushkin Street
New residential constructions, administrative centers, entertainment places, hotels, restaurants… this is the typical picture of Pushkin Street, which has become one of the most beautiful and busiest streets in Yerevan for 60 years. The street was called Tarkhanovkaya, Knunyants, Gnuni, and finally Pushkin since 1949. The street construction works began in 1870; it had a 12.7m length […]