Poloz Mukuch is a restaurant and prominent beerhouse in
Gyumri
Gyumri ( hy, Գյումրի, ) is an urban municipal community and the second-largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative center of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country. By the end of the 19th century, when the city w ...
, the second-largest city in
Armenia
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. It was opened during the 1960s in
Soviet Armenia and located in the
historic district of Kumayri. It occupies an old mansion built in the 1860s. The beerhouse is named after humorist ''Mkrtich Melkonyan'' (1881-1931), a native of Gyumri, better known as ''
Poloz Mukuch''.
History
The building was originally built by Ter-Suqias Meliqyan (was born in 1880 in Ojakhuli , under Stalin's regime, he was executed in 1937 by a troika of the NKVD (People's Committee of Internal Affairs) and the KGB in Armenia. ), when Gyumri was known as ''Alexandropol'' under
Imperial Russia
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the List of Russian monarchs, Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended th ...
. However, the property was nationalized by the Soviet government in 1937. At the beginning of the 1960s, the building was turned into a state-owned beerhouse.
However, the property was privatized in late 1990s and continued to function as a beerhouse. The 130-year old building is well-preserved and still keeping its original traditional design. The bust of ''Poloz Mukuch'' was placed at the entrance.
Nowadays, the beerhouse is one of the prominent landmarks of the city of Gyumri.
Poloz Mukuch Beerhouse
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Gallery
File:Շենք` «Պոլոզ Մուկուչ» գարեջրատան 08.JPG, The beerhouse at Kumayri historic district
File:Շենք` «Պոլոզ Մուկուչ» գարեջրատան 03.JPG, The facade of the building
File:Շենք` «Պոլոզ Մուկուչ» գարեջրատան 02.JPG, General view
File:Շենք` «Պոլոզ Մուկուչ» գարեջրատան 09.JPG, Mkrtich Melkonyan, better known as ''Poloz Mukuch''
File:Poloz Mukuch Beerhouse 01.jpg, The beerhouse at Jivani Street
References
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Buildings and structures in Shirak Province
Gyumri