Mother Armenia
Location: Yerevan, Armenia
Completed: 1967
Architects: Rafael Israelyan (architect) and Ara Harutyunyan (sculptor)
Genre: Soviet monument, former USSR
A huge statue of Joseph Stalin, in fact, one of the largest in the USSR, used to be mounted on the pedestal in the centre of Victory Park but was removed in 1962 and replaced with the present-day Mother Armenia in 1967.
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