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<\/a>New residential constructions, administrative centers, entertainment places, hotels, restaurants\u2026\u00a0this 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\u00a0Pushkin since 1949.<\/p>\n
The street construction works began in 1870; it had a 12.7m length and began from Teryan Street\u00a0and went up to the current Azizbekov square. According to the agreement signed between the province of Yerevan and a man called Yeghiazaryan, the utility construction on the south side of the street\u00a0would be completed and afterwards, the crews would hard at work on the north side of Pushkin Street up\u00a0to the former Armyankaya, nowadays Mashtots Avenue. Unfortunately, the street construction remained on schedule, as then viewed by Merbov plan in 1906-11. Pushkin Street was famous for its residential constructions with beautiful backyard gardens, and those of the rich people were with swimming\u00a0pools. Among the most distinguished houses was the one belonging to R. \u00a0Afrikians, the house of\u00a0Fotinski (a teacher in a male gymnasium) with modern architectural motives and Melikians\u2019 house which\u00a0was also considered as a city hospital.<\/p>\n
In 1921 the street was called Gnuni, in honour of the revolutionary Bogdan Knunyants, in 1949 the\u00a0street western part was called Pushkin, and the eastern part \u2013 Vardanants since 1991.<\/p>\n