ArmInfo. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan recalled that the government had decided on the need to restore the sculptures adjacent to the Yerevan-Sevan highway. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced this on his Facebook page.
The prime minister wrote that in the spring the government allocated 176 million and 76 million drams, respectively, for the restoration of the "Road Builders" and "Ardzaganka" monuments, as well as for the improvement of adjacent territories. In June and July, the Ministry of Education and Science announced an open tender to select a company to carry out the restoration work. Both tenders did not take place due to the lack of participants.
The ministry announced a new tender yesterday. "I hope this time there will be participants and winners of this tender, and not only a cultural issue will be resolved, but also an economic one, because such investments also imply the creation of new jobs," Pashinyan concluded.
Note that the main part of the monument to "Road builders" at the entrance to Charentsavan at the end of the 90s was simply dismantled and plundered by someone, as it was made of stainless steel.