Monument “We are our mountains” (Khankendi / Stepanakert)
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Monument “We are our mountains” (Armenian: Մե՛նք ենք մեր սարերը) or “Grandfather and Grandmother” (Armenian: Տատիկ-պապիկ, “tatik-papik”). A symbol of Nagorno-Karabakh's Armenian heritage and embodies the "undying spirit of the local people." The monument is depicted on the coat of arms of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and the city of Stepanakert.
Opening: November 1, 1967
Author: Sarkis Baghdasaryan.
Architect: Yuri Akopyan.
Height: 9 m.
The sculpture represents the heads of two elderly Karabakh spouses in national Armenian headdresses, reminiscent of the two peaks of Mount Ararat; According to local tradition, the woman's face is covered with a headscarf or scarf. Made from Armavir's reddish tuff. The statue does not have a pedestal, which, according to the author, should create the feeling that the figures were born from the mountains, grew into the mountains and became related to them; this compositional solution is ideologically similar to the Moai statues.
History.
When Soviet representatives from Baku came to the opening of the monument in Stepanakert, they asked: “Don’t these figures have legs?” The artist replied: “They exist, and they are deeply rooted in their land.” There were attempts by the Azerbaijani authorities to prevent its installation.
Opening: November 1, 1967
Author: Sarkis Baghdasaryan.
Architect: Yuri Akopyan.
Height: 9 m.
The sculpture represents the heads of two elderly Karabakh spouses in national Armenian headdresses, reminiscent of the two peaks of Mount Ararat; According to local tradition, the woman's face is covered with a headscarf or scarf. Made from Armavir's reddish tuff. The statue does not have a pedestal, which, according to the author, should create the feeling that the figures were born from the mountains, grew into the mountains and became related to them; this compositional solution is ideologically similar to the Moai statues.
History.
When Soviet representatives from Baku came to the opening of the monument in Stepanakert, they asked: “Don’t these figures have legs?” The artist replied: “They exist, and they are deeply rooted in their land.” There were attempts by the Azerbaijani authorities to prevent its installation.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_Our_Mountains
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 39°50'13"N 46°46'11"E
- Varand Region of Hadrut Province 23 km
- Hochants village, 32 km
- Castle & ancient City Shahaar Yeri 174 km
- Shahar Yeri limits Archeaological site - ancient enclosure - 8000 years ago 174 km
- The historic city Ojan 225 km
- Kandovan 232 km
- Varjovi (Varjuy) 282 km
- Biladir natural Park 286 km
- GHaley-e Behestan (Hoodoos) Tent Rocks National Monument 363 km
- Zangan Bazari (Bazar of Zanjan) 383 km
- Əfətli 0.8 km
- Melikavan 1 km
- Medical center 1.1 km
- Khanbagi Neighborhood 1.1 km
- İndustrial zone 1.2 km
- High School No. 2 1.3 km
- Khachtak 1.3 km
- Qarabag University complex 1.7 km
- Malibeyli 1.8 km
- Khojaly District 4.7 km
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