Armenian Soviet Heritage
Stefano Perego takes a photographic journey through the whole country to document the modernist buildings and the war memorials built during the Soviet times. Architectures with a powerful visual impact and charm, patterns, concrete and tuff, forgotten ruins and desolated scenes which tells a lot about an era and its artistic value.
01 - Komitas Chamber Music House, by architect Stepan Kyurkchyan, 1977. Yerevan, Armenia.
02 - Tigran Petrosyan Chess House, by architect Zhanna Mescheryakova, 1967-1970. Yerevan, Armenia.
03 - Yeritasardakan Metro Station, by architect Stepan Kyurkchyan, 1972-1981. Yerevan, Armenia.
04 - Yeritasardakan Metro Station, by architect Stepan Kyurkchyan, 1972-1981. Yerevan, Armenia.
05 - Kond Pedestrian Tunnel, by architect Alexander Tamanyan, 1935-1936. Yerevan, Armenia.
06 - The former Cinema Rossiya, by architects Spartak Khachikyan, Hrachik Poghosyan and Artur Tarkhanyan, 1975. Yerevan, Armenia.
07 - Seagull road mark, by architect Hovhannes Hakobyan, 1960. Yerevan, Armenia.
08 - Road Builders Memorial. Kotayk province, Armenia.
09 - Gyumri Railway Station, by architect Rafik Eghoyan, 1974-1979. Gyumri, Armenia.
10 - Gyumri Railway Station, by architect Rafik Eghoyan, 1974-1979. Gyumri, Armenia.
11 - The iron fountain originally built in the area of the Polytechnic University of Gyumri by Arthur Tarkhanyan, 1982. The fountain is still standing after a strong earthquake in 1988 destroyed a big part of the city. Gyumri, Armenia.
12 - Monument to the Battle of Bash-Aparan, by architect Rafael Israelyan, 1979. Aparan, Armenia.
13 - Monument to the Battle of Bash-Aparan, by architect Rafael Israelyan, 1979. Aparan, Armenia.
14 - Bus station, by architect Henrik Arakelyan, 1976-1978. Hrazdan, Armenia.
15 - Viewing platform by architect Makabe Manuelyan, 1978. Sevan Lake, Armenia.
16 - Memorial for the 50th anniversary of Soviet Armenia, by A. Tarkhanyan, S. Avetisyan and K. Vatinyan, 1970. Dilijan, Armenia.
17 - Monument to the Great Patriotic War, a sculpture by K. Vatinyan and S. Mehrabyan, 1975. Dilijan, Armenia.
18 - Monument to the Great Patriotic War, a sculpture by Jirayr Ketikyan, 1974. Vanadzor, Armenia.