As reported by PanARMENIAN.net, on 7 monuments in Yerevan has already been placed plates with QR Code and further 37 monuments and 20 buildings will be also provided with QR Code till September 20. QR Code contains useful information about monument or building, and one can receive the information through a mobile telephone.

The program is mainly provided for tourists to facilitate obtaining information about the historical and cultural monuments in Armen. Each QR code transfers to the corresponding page of monuments.yerevan.am web-site, which contains information about each monument in three languages (Armenian, Russian and English) including the name of the architect, the material used to create the monument, its history and photographs.

The Program was offered by Yerevan City Hall and realized by "Center of Technology Management of Yerevan" and foundation "City of the World". It should be noted, that each QR Code plate costs 150 thousand AMD.

QR code is designed by the Japanese company "Denso-Wave". It contains characters: letters, numbers and special symbols. One QR code may contain up to 7089 digits and 4296 characters. QR codes are often used to transfer information from one phone to another.