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Monument Honoring Russians Killed in Turkish Wars to Be Erected in Armenia

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Monument Honoring Russians Killed in Turkish Wars to Be Erected in Armenia


01.04.2010

The first-stone-laying ceremony for a monument to Russian officers killed in the Russian-Turkish wars of 1855 and 1878 has taken place in the city of Gyumry in northwestern Armenia, Voice of Russia reports. The 13-meter Hill of Honor to be built on a site where 156 Russian servicemen were put to rest is the exact copy of an obelisk designed by sculptor Boris Mikeshin, which was erected in Turkey’s northeastern Kars province in 1910 and later destroyed after it was recaptured by Turks in 1918. The project was initiated by the Russian embassy in Armenia.

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