{"id":5036,"date":"2022-08-26T09:06:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T09:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armeniancoins.am\/?post_type=product&#038;p=5036"},"modified":"2024-09-27T06:35:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T06:35:34","slug":"memorial-to-mother-armenia","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/armeniancoins.am\/en\/product\/memorial-to-mother-armenia\/","title":{"rendered":"MOTHER ARMENIA MONUMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5023 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/armeniancoins.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/\u0574\u0561\u0575\u0580_\u0570\u0561\u0575\u0561\u057d\u057f\u0561\u0576_\u0574\u0578\u0576\u0578\u0582\u0574\u0565\u0576\u057f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Memorial to Mother Armenia\u00a0 is located in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, and was built to commemorate the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War.<\/p>\n<p>The memorial was opened on November 29, 1950 in Haghtanak park, the author is the people&#8217;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&#8217;s artist of the USSR Sergey Merkurov. Later, in 1961, the statue of Stalin was removed.<\/p>\n<p>In 1967, the 22-meter-high copper statue &#8220;Mother Armenia&#8221; created by the armenian national artist, sculptor Ara Harutyunyan was installed.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s statue.<\/p>\n<p>The Mother Armenia statue symbolises peace through strength and an Armenian mother with a sword in her hand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Memorial to Mother Armenia\u00a0 is located in Yerevan, the capital of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[71],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5036","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-coins-en","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"purchasable","12":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancoins.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancoins.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancoins.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancoins.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancoins.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancoins.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancoins.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancoins.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=5036"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancoins.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5036"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancoins.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}