The Mother Armenia ( hy, Մայր Հայաստան ''Mayr Hayastan'') monumental statue is a female

personification Personification occurs when a thing or abstraction is represented as a person, in literature or art, as a type of anthropomorphic metaphor. The type of personification discussed here excludes passing literary effects such as "Shadows hold their b ...

of Armenia, located in the city of Gyumri. It resembles the monumental complex of Mother Armenia in the capital Yerevan. It was erected in 1975 on a hill west of Gyumri city. It was composed by sculptors

Ara Sargsian Ara Sargsyan ( hy, Արա Միհրանի Սարգսյան; 1902 - 1969) was an Armenian sculptor, People's Artist of the USSR (1963), academic of the Russian Academy of Arts. Biography Sargsyan was born in the Armenian village of Makri, near Con ...

, Gaspar Gasparyan and Yerem Vartanyan.Gyumri
/ref> The architect is Rafik Yeghoyan.

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