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On February 26, in the yard of the National Assembly, the opening of the memorial complex dedicated to the memory of the deceased of the Kozern cemetery and the victims of October 27 crime took place, the author of which is sculptor Isahak Apreyan. – a celibate of the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin of Armenian Apostolic Church, Spiritual Rector of the Armenian Church Youth Organization World (ACYOWorld) Tovma Archimandrite Khachatryan conducted a requiem service.

The idea of placing a monument in the territory of the RA National Assembly belongs to the President of the parliament of the 8^th convocation Alen Simonyan. Giving solemn opening speech, he particularly noted that the monument dedicated to the memory of the deceased of the Kozern cemetery, the oldest one in Yerevan, destroyed during the Soviet years, and the victims of October 27 crime and adjacent to the administrative territory of the National Assembly is for generations. According to Alen Simonyan, with this step people remember and bow to the memory of the end of human lives in the building and the surrounding area and the innocent victims.

In the 17^th century, Catholicos Movses III of Syunik was buried next to Archimandrite Kozern. A chapel was built on those tombstones, which was destroyed in 1679 from disastrous earthquake. Until the beginning of the 20^th century, the cemetery was stretched from the private houses of Proshyan Street to the territory of the Lovers’ Park, including the National Assembly Park and the private houses of Derenik Demirchyan Street.

It is also known that the founder the of the first republic of Armenia Aram Manukyan was reburied in the Kozern cemetery. As the cemetery was demolished, in the 1920s Aram Manukyan’s widow reburied his body in the central cemetery of Yerevan.