Children's railway park

Children's Railway Park is one of the most beautiful parts of the Hrazdan Gorge. The idea of creating a children's railway in Yerevan was put forward in 1935 by the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia, Agasi Khanjyan. The railway was built in 1943. Chief architect of the Children's Railway Park Mikael Mazmanyan. The former station building was built of wood according to the design of Mikael Mazmanyan. At the end of the 1940s it was replaced by a stone building designed by the architect Gohar Grigoryan.

Children's railways built in the USSR were a unique phenomenon, functioning as educational institutions allowing young students to study various professions on the railway. During the warm season, visitors to the park can take the train and take a short walk through the Hrazdan Gorge, covering about 600 m, and return to the starting point. This path is a unique look at the life of Soviet Armenia.