Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Arshaluys or Sunshine sculpture, located on the Yerevan - Sevan highway, in Armenia. The monument was designed in 1977 by Mr. Armen Harutyunyan, an Armenian sculptor and monumental painter. People's Artist of the Armenian SSR ( 1977 ), Corresponding Member of the USSR and Russian Academy of Fine Arts (1988), Honored Artist of the Armenian SSR (1964), Honored Artist of the Armenian SSR (1972), Professor (1988).