A piece of Soviet melancholy in the Hrazdan River gorge below the city centre — the abandoned terminus of one of the USSR's children's railways, a 1930s educational scheme in which children ran a working narrow-gauge line under supervision. The Yerevan railway operated from 1937 to the early 1990s, when it shut down with the collapse of the Soviet Union; rolling stock was sold for scrap and the stations were left to rot.
The main station house, with its small dome and crumbling pink-tufa facade, still stands beside the river. The atmosphere is post-Soviet poetry of a particularly pure kind: empty platforms, broken windows, weeds growing through the tracks. Worth a detour for anyone interested in the texture of Yerevan's recent past.