Monument to the 60th Anniversary of Leninakan

Location: Gyumri, Armenia

Completed: 1984

Architect: Not known 

Genre: Soviet monument, former USSR

The monument commemorates the 60th anniversary of the changing of the city’s name from its Imperialist Russian one of Alexandropol to its Soviet one of Leninakan in 1924.

Monument to the 60th Anniversary of Leninakan in Gyumri, Armenia | Soviet monument | former USSR

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