Tamanyan Street ( hy, Թամանյան Փողոց, '' Tamanyan poghots'') is a pedestrian street in

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i ...

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ' ...

. It is located in the central

Kentron district Kentron ( hy, Կենտրոն վարչական շրջան, translit=Kentron varčakan šrĵan), is one of the 12 districts of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. It comprises the downtown, the commercial centre of the city. As of the 2011 census, the ...

and links the

Yerevan Cascade The Cascade ( hy, Կասկադ, ''Kaskad'') is a giant stairway made of limestone in Yerevan, Armenia. It links the downtown Kentron area of Yerevan with the Monument neighborhood ( Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun districts). Designed by architects J ...

at the north with the Moscow street at the south. It has a length of and a width of . It is named after the main architect of Yerevan

Alexander Tamanian Alexander Tamanian (, March 4, 1878 – February 20, 1936) was a Russian-born Armenian neoclassical architect, well known for his work in the city of Yerevan. Life and work Tamanian was born in the city of Yekaterinodar in 1878 in the family ...

. Tamanian's statue stands at the entrance to the street since 1974. The ''Cafesjian Sculpture Garden'' of the

Cafesjian Museum of Art Officially, Cafesjian Center for the Arts (CCA, Armenian: (Gafesčyan arvesti kentron), also known as the Cafesjian Museum Foundation) is an art museum in Yerevan, Armenia. It is located at the central Kentron District, in and around the Yerevan ...

is located along the street. The street ends with the staircase of the cascade complex. The sculpture garden of the street is home to works of many influential artists including Fernando Botero's ''Cat'', ''Roman warrior'',Roman warrior, CCA
/ref> and ''Woman Smoking a Cigarette''. The ''Museum of Russian Art'' is also located on the Tamanyan Street. Several types of coffee shops, bars, restaurants, and pubs are found at the sidewalks of the street.

Gallery

Yerevan skyline at night.jpg, The Tamanyan Street at night 2014 Erywań, Pomnik Aleksandra Tamaniana (03).jpg, Tamanian's statue at the entrance 2014 Erywań, Park przy Kaskadach (06).jpg, Artworks at the sculpture garden 2014 Erywań, Park przy Kaskadach (09).jpg, Botero's ''Roman Warrior'' Statue 2014 Erywań, Park przy Kaskadach (20).jpg, Botero's ''Cat''

References

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