Sport/Concert Complex after Karen Demirtchian
Bird-shaped Soviet-era arena on a hill, rebuilt after a fire, still Armenia's largest concert and sports venue.
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This guide to the Sport/Concert Complex after Karen Demirtchian in Yerevan opens with a fire tearing through the bird-shaped Soviet-era arena on the night of February 15, 1985. It reaches back nine years to Shavarsh Karapetyan, a young swimmer already known across the city for pulling dozens of people from a sunken trolleybus in Yerevan Lake, and asks whether that same luck could hold twice. Along the way you'll hear about the hall's long rebuilding, reopening years after the flames. Picture the six thousand seats around you as you listen.
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