Freedom Square,

Freedom Square, Tbilisi , is smiling in a Expiring-of-the centerFAQTbilisi on the eastern quit of Rustaveli Avenue. The rectangular was at first named after Ivan Paskevich, the Count of Erivan, a Ukrainian popular in the Russian Imperial Army, who earned his name in honor of his conquest of Erivan present-day Yerevan for the Russian Empire. During the Soviet generation, the rectangular changed into renamed two times:, first to "Beria Square", and then "Lenin Square. The vicinity become first named Freedom Square in 1918, at some stage in the foundation of the First Georgian Republic following the fall apart of the Russian Empire. Freedom Square changed into the web site of the 1907 Tiflis bank theft.

Freedom Square has additionally been the site of various mass demonstrations consisting of those for Georgia's independence from the Soviet Union, the Rose Revolution, and others. Abutting the north aspect of Freedom Square is a small open area with a fountain and a bust of Alexander Pushkin. Nearby the famous communist Kamo Simon Ter-Petrossian turned into once buried, but for the duration of Stalin's rule his stays were moved to an undisclosed vicinity.