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Sashur Kalashyan
Former head architect
of the city of Gyumri, RA
Honorable Architect,
co-designer of the
Tsitsernakaberd
monument.

Chairman of the Council of Ministers, were also

Vanik

present at that meeting of the panel of judges.

head of the architectural team constructing the

They requested Varazdat Harutyunyan, the

Genocide memorial complex. The team consisted

chairman of the panel of judges, to express his

of

opinion on the designs that had made it to the

Tarkhanyan.

f inal stage.

Khachatryan

architects

(Van

Sashur

Khachatur)

Kalashyan

and

as

the

Arthur

“There was some discord around this second

“Harutyunyan said that though he did not like

version

any of them, he would give preference to the

Khachatur clarifies, “There were supposed to

design named "ASSR Flag,” Amatuni Virabyan,

be towers that were larger in proportion to the

ANA Director, recalls.

radius of the galler y, and they were to have less

At the next meeting, the design codenamed

of an incline. In this case, the galler y would be

“ASSR Flag” was selected. Decree N 292 issued

larger and the ground would be at a lower level.

on September 25, 1965 by the Armenian State

We don’t have towers now, we have concrete

Design Institute appointed artist and sculptor

structures with slabs of stone, so it is not a

which

had

been

approved,”

Van