Memorial to Mother Armenia is located in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, and was built to commemorate the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War.
The memorial was opened on November 29, 1950 in Haghtanak park, the author is the people’s architect of the USSR Rafael Israelyan. At that time, a 17-meter-high copper statue of Stalin was placed on the pedestal: created by another people’s artist of the USSR Sergey Merkurov. Later, in 1961, the statue of Stalin was removed.
In 1967, the 22-meter-high copper statue “Mother Armenia” created by the armenian national artist, sculptor Ara Harutyunyan was installed.
The memorial complex was designed with the structure of an Armenian three-nave basilica church, the total height is 51 meters, and the sculpture is 22 meters. The memorial is built of black tuff.
The native woman of the monument is armenian pedagogue Yevgenya Muradyan, born in 1942. Yevgenya Muradyan tells how Ara Harutyunyan offered her to become the native woman of the statue; he was 17 years old when the sculptor accidentally noticed him and said that the statue of Mother Armenia should be placed instead of Stalin’s statue.
The Mother Armenia statue symbolises peace through strength and an Armenian mother with a sword in her hand.
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