Yerevan Railway Station
Soviet-built railway terminus fronted by a bronze monument of a rearing, bitless horse.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Yerevan Railway Station centers on the bronze horse rearing over its square, cast without a bit or reins because it depicts Kurkik Jalali, the wild steed of David of Sassoun from Armenia's medieval epic. It follows sculptor Yervand Kochar, who modeled the statue in plaster on this square in 1939, and the Soviet police who arrested him two years later on charges of anti-Soviet agitation and destroyed his work. Watch for the fountain running from a shallow bowl beneath the horse's front hooves into the pool below.
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