New “Atlas” section now available on the “Russian Community of the Republic of Armenia” portal

On April 18, 2026, the Russian-Armenian Atlas of Cultural and Military Heritage was presented at the Russian House in Yerevan. It is not just a map, but a digital space of historical memory.

Work on the project began back in 2021, when the representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo in Armenia started creating an interactive historical map of Russian-Armenian partnership during the era of the Russo-Turkish and Russo-Persian wars. With the support of the Armenian-Russian Cultural Association, the project gained new life.

The Russian-Armenian Atlas of Cultural and Military Heritage will bring together more than 60 geographic points across Armenia. Each of them is connected to events, names, and destinies that have linked the histories of the two peoples. Some of the most poignant pages of the Atlas are devoted to military burials and monuments honoring figures who left a significant mark on Russian-Armenian history.

Mass grave of Armenian and Russian soldiers who died in the Battle of Sardarapat (Arshaluys village)

“They were found in the churchyard in the morning. Two bodies lay side by side as in battle, as in their final formation, shoulder to shoulder. Nearby stood a faithful white horse, it had not left. In the Russian’s hands was a piece of red cloth, perhaps a scarf, perhaps part of a banner, or simply a scrap of fabric that his lifeless hand never fully released. They were buried there, in the yard. Together. The descendants of Stepan Aloyan still live in Arshaluys. They pass down the memory of their great-grandfather to their children. And also of the unnamed one, the Russian soldier who lies beside him under a single slab. No one knows his name. But there are two crosses on the stone.”

Cossack burials (Stepanavan)

…And these crosses stand among tall grass, under wind and rain, reminding us of those who served here, who witnessed war and death, who remained in this land forever. No one can read the half-erased surnames anymore, no one knows which stanitsas these men came from. Yet the memory of them seems to live in the very air of this place: quiet, bitter, eternal.

Monument to Alexander Griboyedov (Yerevan)

And each time you pass by, you remember: it was here, in this city, during the lifetime of the poet and diplomat, that his immortal comedy was performed on stage for the first and only time. And it was this city, this land, this people that he defended with his words, his pen, his diplomacy, with his entire short life that held so much. Armenians remember. That is why this monument stands, and why its pedestal bears an inscription just as concise and just as full of meaning: “To Alexander Griboyedov from the grateful Armenian people.”