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Arto Tarkhanyan
ASSR Honored Architect
(1972), ASSR People’s
Architect (1987), Honorary
Member of the Moscow
Branch of the International
Academy of Architecture
(1992), Honorary Member
of the AAA (1996).
Sketches of the memorial complex and the wall of mourning
Two years later, on December 13, 1964, Zarobyan
negatively impact the policy of improving relations
sent a report letter to the Central Committee of
with neighboring countries, particularly Turkey,
the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, where
and in a way which seeks to rule out the recurrence
he notes the necessity as well as the political
of a similar tragedy in the peoples’ history.” The
and ideological significance of marking the 50th
program for the event appears at the end of the
anniversary of the Genocide in Yerevan and
letter, including “the construction of a monument
building a monument. “We consider it suitable
to the Armenian martyrs who died during the First
for the 50 th anniversary of that year to occur
World War.” (ANA, F. 1, L. 44, B. 54, Pgs. 170-174).
as a demonstration of the complete victory of
On 16 March 1965, the Council of Ministers of the
the Leninist national policy of the Communist
ASSR passed a decision on “the construction of
Party of the Soviet Union as well as the immense
a monument to immortalize the memory of the
achievements of the reborn Armenian nation in
victims of the 1915 tragedy” (ANA, F. 133, L. 96, B.
the fields of economy, culture and science. This
88, P. 2). This was the first case when a decision
should all be organized in a way which does not
was passed in Armenian.