‘Tsovinar’
Location: Hrazdan, Armenia
Completed: 1985
Sculptor: Khachatur Hakobyan
Alternative name: Lady Coming out the Water
Genre: Soviet monument, former USSR
Tsovinar, meaning ‘daughter of the seas’, is the goddess of water, sea and rain in Armenian mythology. According to legend, she was a fiery, wrathful deity who used her fury to force rain to fall from the skies and cavorted on her horse in the clouds to create thunderstorms. Originally located near the entrance to the city, the sculpture was called “Long Live the Blue and the Pure Sky” and was unveiled to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War (World War II).
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