Thursday, December 27 2018 14:59

ArmInfo.A part of the Mesrop Mashtots Avenue in the center of the capital of Armenia is recognized as a territory of exceptional public interest.  The  decision was taken at the December 27 meeting of the RA government.

According to the Acting Minister of Territorial Administration and  Development of the Republic of Armenia Suren Papikyan, the territory  covering the streets of Abovyan, Pavstos Buzand, Yeznik Koghbatsi and  Aram is considered an exceptional public interest. The decision of  the executive body, continued Suren Papikyan, will allow to complete  the implementation of the town-planning program, thanks to which, due  to private investments, emergency housing will be eliminated in the  center of Yerevan. Thus, it will be possible to recreate the  historical and architectural appearance of old Yerevan. As the Acting  Minister stressed the Main Avenue is only partially built up, and  nearby communications are also partially modernized. The demolished  48 units of real estate do not meet fire-fighting, sanitary-hygienic  and town- planning standards. EMC, which implements the project,  pledged to pay worthy compensation to the owners of the alienated  property. The company must inform the public about the process of  alienation on a monthly basis. The reserve zone will be equipped with  15 historical buildings that were dismantled in other parts of the  city.

To note, the Main Avenue, conceived by Alexander Tamanyan, should  have been a wide, greened walking zone. The main avenue was to  connect with a continuous chord the circumference of the Ring  Boulevard, from the bank of Hrazdan to the street. Khanjyan. The  implementation of the project of the Main Avenue was undertaken only  in the 60s. The author of the project is a talented architect Armen  Zaryan, who had extensive experience in designing residential and  public buildings in Rome, Palermo, and Vienna. The Tamanyan's idea of  the construction of the Main Avenue was never brought to completion -  the building of the National Gallery was built at the place where it  was supposed to cross the Republic Square, and the residential  section building XIX - early XX centuries. Despite this, the two  built sections of the Main Avenue, bounded by Saryan-Koghbatsi and  Nalbandyan-Khanjyan streets, became a favorite place for rest and  walks of several generations of Yerevan residents. Since the 1990,  the territory of the Main Avenue gradually fell into decay: And only  in April of this year, it was reported that this part of the  Boulevard would be reconstructed.