Gyumri

Iron Fountain Gyumri in Gyumri, Armenia

If you go there in late February, the gray sky matches the mood perfectly. You walk down the cracked concrete of what used to be a grand Soviet boulevard, passing decaying apartment blocks. Just behind some overgrown bushes which look like a makeshift camp. The scale of it is incredibly imposing. Designed by architect Artur Tarkhanyan in 1982. In 1988, a devastating earthquake leveled most of G…