Geo: 40.1793, 44.5102Former Soviet Republics are typically ugly, particularly in the larger cities, where any buildings built by the Soviets were intended to only be functional, and nothing else. It's not that the aesthetics were merely secondary, it's that they don't seem to have been considered at all! Big, blocky concrete monstrosity after monstrosity - that's the stereotypical image of former Soviet cities, and you will definitely find these here in Yerevan. That's no surprise, but what was pleasantly surprising today was some of the beautiful Soviet-style architecture we found in central Yerevan.Locals say that Yerevan is the most un-Soviet city anywhere, and that appears to be true, largely due to the work of Alexander Tamanian, the architect mostly responsible for how Yerevan looks today. While the Soviet influences are obvious, it seems that Tamanian t
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