Popular Armenian actor Mher Mkrtchyan’s statue missing again

The bronze barrel attached to the statue of famous Armenian actor Mher Mkrtchyan was broken for the second time last night.

Tert.am’s video camera fixed as early as this morning that the sculpture, placed on a bench on Yerevan’s Charles Aznavur Square, was missing.

The statue was reported broken on Saturday evening after photographs featuring the fact appeared on the Internet.

The sculpture, portraying Mkrtchyan in one of his most popular roles, had been earlier dismantled late in September after unknown individuals had crumbled the barrel to pieces. A few days before, the statue’s finger had been broken.

The Yerevan City Hall later made a decision to install surveillance cameras next to the statues of the great people, which have been placed in different streets and parks of the capital city in the frameworks of the project Our Great People are Beside us in Yerevan.