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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.