MONUMENT TO RUSSIANS KILLED IN TURKISH WARS TO BE ERECTED IN ARMENIA

Voice of Russia
April 1 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. 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.