In the Soviet period urban spaces of Armenia underwent active transformation and development, especially in Yerevan. Disagreements over these transformations, memories of urban space, and directions for their development have been reflected in many literary works.
In the framework of this research, we will study the picture of urban space in literary works, focusing primarily on vernacular districts. For example, the major theme of a number of Armenian writers (Mkrtich Armen, Eduard Avagyan and others) was the parts of the city with squatter settlements, which allows to analyze not only the Soviet city, but pre-Soviet constructions and transformation of architectural thought.
Together with the transformation of vernacular districts these authors depicted also the new manifestation of vernacular life and collective memory in the context of the Soviet culture, which also will be in the focus of our research.