Yerablur Military Memorial Cemetery
Hilltop military pantheon of flag-draped graves for soldiers lost across three wars, with a memorial church where families still light candles.
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This guide to the Yerablur Military Memorial Cemetery in Yerevan opens with a young woman named Taguhi kneeling in her wedding dress on a gravel path, weeks after her father, Ishkhan Petrosyan, was killed fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh in the autumn of 2020. She had not come to mourn, but to ask something of him. From there the guide traces how this hillside became Armenia's burial ground for soldiers lost across three wars since 1988, and the small rituals, flags, photographs, coffee left on stone, that keep families climbing it on ordinary Sundays. Stand among the rows and notice how many stones show a face startlingly young.
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