Mesrop Mashtots, Bronze statue at Matenadaran building entrance, Yerevan, Armenia

Mesrop Mashtots statue is a bronze figure standing before the Matenadaran building in Yerevan, depicting the creator of the Armenian alphabet. The figure stands upright with right arm extended forward and holds a scroll in the left hand.

The sculptor Ghukas Chubaryan, a full member of the USSR Academy of Arts, made the 5.6-metre basalt monument, unveiled on 26 May 1962 during celebrations of Mashtots's 1600th birth anniversary. It was put up in connection with the founding of the Matenadaran library that same year. Mashtots is shown as an older teacher, with his pupil Koryun kneeling at his left foot.

The statue honors Mesrop Mashtots as the figure who shaped Armenian language and learning. Its location at the manuscript repository emphasizes how writing and books remain central to Armenian life and memory.

The statue stands at the end of Mashtots Avenue, on the square beside the Matenadaran, in central Yerevan. It is reached on foot from the avenue, and the square in front of the library entrance is level once you are there. The monument is listed among the immovable monuments of history and culture of Yerevan's Kentron district.

The figure is positioned to face Mount Ararat, Armenia's most sacred symbol. This deliberate orientation links the invention of writing with the country's geographic and spiritual identity.