Sardarapat

Not far from Armavir, one of the 12 ancient capitals of Armenia, and now the regional center, near the town of Sardarapat, where a fateful battle took place in 1918, there is an architectural and sculptural memorial complex of the same name, perpetuating the heroic victory in an unequal battle that prevented the complete destruction of Armenians by the Turks. From the hill of the memorial, built on the burial site of the participants of the Sardarapat battle, there is a panoramic view of a huge part of the country – from the Araks River, the Ararat Mountains, and the valley to the peaks of Aragats and the Gegham ridge. The winged bulls made of red tuff, whose image has a deep meaning going back to ancient Armenian mythology, have become one of the symbols of Armenia, meeting at the entrance to the territory of the complex.