The monument is located 1500 m high in the village of Voghjaberd in the Kotayk Province of Armenia.
[2] He decided to make the arch out of basalt for the exterior and the native orange tuff for the interior.
The monument was also made in a rectangular shape with its dimensions being 5.5 x 10 m and a height of 5 m. The arch itself also has a radius of 3.5 m. The arch has a quote from Charents poem named "I Love My Sweet Armenia's..." engraved in it, which says: "There is no summit as snow-white as that of lofty Ararat; Like an inaccessible path to glory, I love my Mount Masis!
[5] The monument is significant due to its view of places important to Armenia, with the main ones being Mount Ararat and Yerevan.
The monument also has significance in being one of if not the first monument to someone who was a victim of the Great Purge as Charents had his works banned, was arrested by the Armenian communist government and later died imprisoned in 1937.