The lights of evening Yerevan.

The lights of evening Yerevan.

Yerevan is the same age as Babylon. He's 30 years older than Rome. Yerevan is called eternal Rome plus 30 years. Ancient and eternally young Yerevan. He's good year after year. It grows, it settles. Especially attractive under the rays of the bright fiery sun, when the city is multicolored and multifaceted. Every minute the play of light and shadows changes its colors. So everywhere in Armenia the color of mountains, valleys and lakes is changing. The bright colors of the great Armenian artist Martiros Saryan were embodied here. The life of a large capital city is key. Racing along the wide avenues of the car, passers-by are in a hurry, here and there the laughter of happy children is heard. Gradually, for a moment, everything seems to calm down. Twilight is approaching, the streets are becoming less crowded, the flow of cars is decreasing. With the appearance of the first star in the sky lights of Yerevan. Streets dressed in green outfit are unloaded from transport and are provided to guests and residents of the capital for walks. From the green massifs of Norka and the hills surrounding Yerevan blows freshness and coolness. As if there was no daytime heat and the dazzling brilliance of the southern sun. Chains of lights light up and in the fantastic glow of searchlights grow on the velvet dark background of squares and parks monuments and majestic buildings of Yerevan. At different times of the year, evening Yerevan, of course, looks different, but always remains mysterious and alluring. You are as bright as the sun, Bright Yerevan, You will sparkle the whole city of Yerevan with fire. Be kind and be generous to your guests. It is sung in one of the songs about the capital of Armenia, written in the words of the Armenian poet Sarmen. Climbing the Canaker Plateau, a panorama of a multifaceted, romantic city looking to the future opens. Majestic, painted in the crimson color of the setting sun... From here you can admire the sea of lights of evening Yerevan. Here stands the Obelisk of the 50th anniversary - a gift of the revived people to the Great October. The inscription at the foot reads: “To all those whose soul burns brightly.” At the base of the column is a disk with diluting rays - a symbol of eternity. The height of the obelisk is 50 m, stands on the site 50 x 50, erected in 1967 by the chief architect of the city Jim Torosyan. It is difficult for the young generation and visitors to imagine what Yerevan was like before the revolution. Dust, narrow alleys, mud houses. Darkness and cramping. In summer, it was literally enveloped everywhere by a penetrating cloud of dust, and in winter it was filled with liquid mud. Modern times created a miracle in the ancient Armenian land. This happened in the middle of the XX century, when the people who fought for centuries for the right to live and create freely became the master of their land and their destiny. Yerevan has become one of the largest cultural and scientific centers. From here, from the Kanaker Plateau, a panorama of evening Yerevan opens. The tiled roofs of houses are visible, the TV tower glows with red and blue lights, the mirror surface of the Yerevan Lake shines in the distance. And all this at the foot of Mount Ararat. The source of most of these lights is Lake Sevan. When descending from the Kanaker Plateau to meet the evening Yerevan on the street, bearing the name of the largest master of the poetic word Vagan Teryan, there is a student district, where almost all universities of the city are located. Climbing Marshal Baghramyan Avenue, you can once again clearly see that each street, each intersection is illuminated by various types of lanterns, lamps that are not repeated on other streets. This is a characteristic feature of the capital. On the left side of the street is a park of lovers, a favorite place in Yerevan by local residents and tourists. This park is one of the oldest in the city. The area of the park is 1.6 hectares, the Park of Lovers is a green and cozy place. The design is inspired by traditional Japanese landscape design. The author of the project is the famous landscape architect Pierre Rambach. It is located on Marshal Baghramyan Avenue, opposite the Presidential Residence, next to the Parliament. Mesrop Mashtots Avenue (the creator of the Armenian alphabet) is one of the main streets of Yerevan, starting from the Victory Bridge (Akhtanak) in the south and ending at the Matenadaran Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in the north. Tiny floor lamps near the ground illuminate the ground. Mashtots Avenue is the center of supermarkets, cozy cafes, fashionable boutiques, restaurants, bars, shopping centers, etc. On both sides there are beautiful buildings of tuff of different shades, shady squares with comfortable benches and interesting monuments. One of the resting places of Yerevan residents in the evening is the Theatre Square. In a circle there is a square, in the center of which stands the building of the Spendiarov Opera and Ballet Theater. It houses the Grand Concert Hall of the Armenian Philormonia and the Theatre Hall. The great composer Aram Khachaturyan turned a slow cart of Armenian melody into a jet plane of the twentieth century, gave the quiet stream of folk songs a hurricane onslaught and the mother of the ocean of the symphony, the wave of which swept the whole world. Here, not far from the square, Swan Lake sheltered, where the architecture of small forms of Lake Sevan is clearly used. The green slope in the form of an amphitheater is decorated with colored small floor lamps, which are reflected in calm water. In the reservoir made a small island, which is planted with flowers and bushes, beautifully decorated drinking fountains. Almost every fountain is decorated with ornament: a bunch of grapes, pomegranates or deer. There are many such stone fountain bowls on the streets of Yerevan. Prospect to them. Sayat Novy is one of the beautiful in the capital. The sidewalks are planted with fruit trees and rose bushes; at the same time, they are decorated with small architectural forms - a stone wall with quatrains of Sayat Nova, metal statues, ceramic vases. Here on the avenue are located the Children's Puppet Theater, one of the largest hotels "Ani". Sayat Nova is a miracle, a magician of songs. “The poet of the brightest colors”: as Valery Bryusov said. In the distant past, Astafyan Street, opened in 1863, was renamed Aleksandrovskaya Street in 1883, in honor of Alexander the Third, and in 1921 the street was named after the great citizen, educator, writer of Armenia Khachatur Abovyan - the favorite street of Yerevan residents. There is a cinema "Moscow", an exhibition hall of the art fund of Armenia, the hotel "Yerevan", the Russian drama theater named after Stanislavsky and so on. “Armenians have a thousand-year reputation as builders. A vivid testimony is the wonderful Republic Square, where the best of the buildings for three millennia of those marvelous palaces that are now underground or in a state of semi-ruins are concentrated. The Republic Square is a real architectural miracle! These words belong to the great American artist Rockwell Kent, who visited Yerevan in 1962. And in the center of the fountain: this is a unique structure. Unlike foreign fountains, the control here of the play and shape of the fountains, their color color is conducted continuously, synchronously, under the influence of sound vibrations and depending on the tone of the melody. Every evening hundreds of cars and buses come to the Republic Square, residents and guests of the capital come to listen to an unusual open-air music concert. Yerevan is attractive in the evening in the twinkling of lights! How beautiful you are, Yerevan at night In the proud beauty of the streets, parks, home, as in a beautiful dream. I still admire your beauty, my dear city. You are the heart of my country Beautiful and dear!