Moscow Cinema
Soviet modernist cinema complex with an open-air courtyard saved from demolition by a public uprising.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Moscow Cinema in Yerevan traces the open-air courtyard built in the mid-1960s by architects Spartak Kndeghtsyan and Telman Gevorkyan, on ground once held by a demolished medieval church. It follows the cinema's history back to Pepo, the first Armenian sound film, and forward to 2010, when the government floated a plan to tear the courtyard down. A Facebook group and a paper petition rallied thousands of signatures against City Hall's plan within weeks.
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