 The construction of the square started in 1926, when the Government House began.It was developed until the 1950s when the rest of the five buildings were constructed and finally completed in 1977, when the National Gallery was built.The square was named Lenin Square (, "Lenini hraparak"; "ploshchad’ Lenina") for Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, whose statue was erected in the square in 1940 and dismantlement in 1991, prior to the independence of Armenia.