Official unveiling ceremony of Charles Aznavour`s monument to take  place in Yerevan on July 18

ArmInfo.  The official opening of the monument to the great Charles Aznavour - a French chansonnier of Armenian origin, a national hero of Armenia, an outstanding artist, singer, composer, poet - will take place on July 18, at 11:00, on the square of the same name in Yerevan. 

Vice-Mayor of Yerevan Levon Oganesyan announced this during a working  meeting of the city hall, noting that the latter will be installed in  the city on July 16. He said that the work on the construction of the  monument is in the final stage, and the final approvals with the  sculptor and other partners took place on July 4. 

"We discussed all current issues, clarified the remaining details and  determined the course of the final work," the vice-mayor noted,  reporting that the casting of the monument was carried out in Gyumri. 

Oganesyan also noted that delegations from Paris and the  Ile-de-France region will also attend the opening ceremony of the  Aznavour monument.

In turn, Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan added that this is an  exceptional case when the mayor's office has assumed all the expenses  for the installation of the monument. Previously, as he noted,  monuments were donated to the city.

"It is very important that this is our initiative," the mayor  emphasized, recalling that the process of selecting the sketch lasted  a long time together with the Aznavour Foundation and Charles  Aznavour's son, Nicolas Aznavour. "I am sure that we made the right  choice," Avinyan noted.

The author of the sculpture of Charles Aznavour, which will be  installed on the square of the same name in Yerevan, was David  Minasyan. The design was chosen in a closed vote by the Professional  Commission, which included 11 people, including members of Charles  Aznavour's family - son Nicolas Aznavour and his wife Christina  Aznavour, representatives of the city hall - Mayor Tigran Avinyan and  Vice Mayor Levon Hovhannisyan, Deputy Director of the Charles  Aznavour Foundation Karine Evoyan, Director of the Museum of Modern  Art Nune Avetisyan, Chairman of the Union of Artists of Armenia Suren  Safaryan, sculptor Albert Vardanyan, architect Alexander Badalyan and  others. 9 out of 11 members of the Commission voted for the design by  David Minasyan.

It was initially announced that the monument to Aznavour would be  erected in Yerevan in October 2024, which marked the 100th  anniversary of the artist's birth. However, the deadline was later  postponed to 2025. At first, they said that the monument would appear  on Aznavour Square in November 2025, then they named the date of May  22 - the 101st anniversary of Chansonnier's birthday. And only in May  of this year, at the next meeting of the city hall, they announced a  new date, stating that the monument to Aznavour would be erected in  Yerevan in July of this year.