News - Babon, Ankan, and Sakon are on the wall of the Erebuni Fortress. What is the fortress's condition today?

Babon, Ankan, and Sakon on the wall of the Erebunі Fortress. What is the fortress's state today? Zhenya Gevorgyan Saro Bagdasaryan 2025-12-05 19:30:00 Babon, Ankan and Sakon on the wall of the Erebuni Fortress. What is the fortress's state today? There are signs of vandalism on the walls of the Erebuni Fortress: carved names, declarations of love, and farewell messages, even though the fortress is one of Yerevan's most visited tourist attractions. Some walls are crumbling; there are large cracks on certain sections. The monument's area is 30 hectares, the fortress proper covers 3 hectares. The fortress area is monitored by only one police officer. There are no surveillance cameras in the area that would allow monitoring the fortress with limited human resources. The city authorities replied that since 2019 no installation or reconstruction work has been carried out—except for the modernization of the fortress's external lighting. In 2025, for the Yerevan–Erebuni festival to mark the capital's 2,807th anniversary, 755 million drams were spent. And how much money is needed to restore and technically upgrade the festival's oldest symbol—the Erebuni Fortress? This year the fortress has been included in UNESCO's preliminary list of historic and cultural monuments as part of Yerevan's Urartian heritage. If you find a typo, you can send it to us by selecting the typo and pressing CTRL+Enter