What do people do in Armenia, mainly in Yerevan these days?

[HyePrincess]

this is off topic. But Armenians should drill underground, make atunnel that pops up directly underneath Ararat mt. And turn the whole thing into a giant death dealing robot that walks the lands shooting lasers out of it's eyes and missiles out of it's forearms. That'll show them.

hahaha ur funny thats a very good idea

[Anushik]

Yerevan is the best place in the whole world... it seems that you are in some European city, when you go for a walk in the evening... but, out of Yerevan you can see the same sad picture... you can say easily whether that person from Yerevan or from some village... Voske Pataraqagh is really great place... Water World is much better... I loved to be their... but it's pretty scary for me ... especially that "Kamikaze" one... WOW My God... and during evenings, there are disco, party... it's great to dance near the water (or jump in the water.... even though it's not allowed )... there are many new things to see in Yerevan... the best thing is that you can walk in the evening and do not afraid from anything... Government reconstructed "Hanrapetutyan Hraparak" last year... it is soooooooooooooooooooooo beautiful now... It's all in lights after 9:00pm...
I love Yerevan... HyeJinx you need to go to Armenia ...

[!EEK]

Yerevan is the best place in the whole world... it seems that you are in some European city, when you go for a walk in the evening... but, out of Yerevan you can see the same sad picture... you can say easily whether that person from Yerevan or from some village... Voske Pataraqagh is really great place... Water World is much better... I loved to be their... but it's pretty scary for me ... especially that "Kamikaze" one... WOW My God... and during evenings, there are disco, party... it's great to dance near the water (or jump in the water.... even though it's not allowed )... there are many new things to see in Yerevan... the best thing is that you can walk in the evening and do not afraid from anything... Government reconstructed "Hanrapetutyan Hraparak" last year... it is soooooooooooooooooooooo beautiful now... It's all in lights after 9:00pm...
I love Yerevan... HyeJinx you need to go to Armenia ...

Such an intense description Anush and with many s. Anyway, I always thought Water World was a really crap/stupid/you name it movie

[xBaron Dants]

Well, the locals call it jrashkhar (chrashkhar).

Incidentally, chrashkhar is also where you might find yourself if you eat too many fruits and drink too much water.

Not nearly as pleasant.

[Anushik]

Such an intense description Anush and with many s. Anyway, I always thought Water World was a really crap/stupid/you name it movie

I've been in Jrashkhar two years ago and I looooooooooved it... yeah, maybe you are right... after beeing in Water World in the US, our poor "Jrashkhar" becomes nothing... I felt that way this year... anyway, my first expression remained, and it pretty scary for me until now...

[HyeJinx1984]

Like a European city? *shudders* why would you want that? Hmm.. personally I think any rebuilding from this point on should be in very unique armenian architectural style. I don't want our cities to look like anyone elses. After all, in the old days we were known as master architects... I'm sure we could come up with something awe inspiring.

[Anushik]

Like a European city? *shudders* why would you want that? Hmm.. personally I think any rebuilding from this point on should be in very unique armenian architectural style. I don't want our cities to look like anyone elses. After all, in the old days we were known as master architects... I'm sure we could come up with something awe inspiring.

Saying that it looks like European city I meant, that in evening all Yerevan is in lights, lots of bars, discos, night clubs (I don't think that you could see that in the past), cafés, casinos, fancy cars bla-bla-bla... that is what I meant by saying European city... architecture? You should have seen the monument of our great composer Arno Babajanyan, which they put near Opera House... you would be sooooo scared, I don't think that you could go to slip that night... it was the worst monument which I have ever seen, especially in Yerevan... near such classic monuments of Hovhanner Tumanyan and Alexandr Spendaryan, the poor Arno Babjanyan was like Quasimodo...each time when I look at that monument, I want to through an agg on that arcitecture's face... I feel that he wanted to laugh on that kind of great composer... no seriously... that monument is terrible... before that monument, they put monument of Aram Khachatryan: that was not sooooo bad, but it was not Isahakyan, Saryan, Ayvazovski, Sasuntci David etc. ... our architectural style is changing, and I really don't like it... they want to use modern style, and because they don't know how to use it, the result is not the best one...

[xBaron Dants]

I didn't mind the Babajanian statue. People are just not used to seeing anything different.

My favourite statues, however, are those of Sasuntsi Tavit and Alexander Tamanian.

[TJ]

Although i was born there, i havent been there in 10 years so i feel maybe i have no right to dispute with you guys with what is going on in Yerevan, but from what i hear, Republic Square actually turned out pretty mundane and boring and a lot of people had been expecting some really nice grand thing but now.

Now Hyejinx you were saying why would you want it to look like a European city and that Armenia has its own architecture and all. Of course we do, and i think it is pretty European, i mean you say you dont want it to look like all the other cities in Europe but do you think that each European country has the same architecture or something? no each nation has its own ,and ours is Armenian and hence European.

Now as for the statue, i like it too, not nearly as much as the Sasunci Davit statue but i dont see the big deal, its a modern piece of art, and if you want the city to be alive you cant just stay in the old days and the old style, times change and so does art and society.

Anyway i cant wait to be back, every time i am walking around in New York and sometimes like around the Museum of Natural History and today in battery park i just get this nostalgia and am reminded of Armenia, for some reason i am reminded a lot more during autumn.

[Thai-Samurai]

Yerevan is actually (according to my teacher) one of the oldest consistently inhabited urban centers in the world. Meaning that we don't need to worry about copying European citie's architecture becuase Yerevan has been around way before they were. Germany didn't even become a nationstate until 1850 or something. France was something like 1400's but im not sure about that one. Armenia has been around as long as the Greeks. However the Chinese, Egyptians, And the Aztec, Incas, and Native Americans are by far the oldest civilzations.