Alexander Tamanian

Alexander Tamanjan (Armenian Ալեքսանդր Թամանյան, Russian Александр Иванович Таманян; born March 4, 1878 in Yekaterinodar, † February 20, 1936 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR ) was a neoclassical architect, who has today's cityscape of Yerevan since its inception.

Tamanjan Alexander was born in 1878 in a banking family. He graduated from the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg in 1904. His early works include the Castle of WP Kotschubei in Pushkin, then Tsarskoye Selo, 1911-1912; the house of Prince SA Scherbatow on Nowinski Boulevard in Moscow, 1911-1913; Station building at Prosorowskaja, today Kratovo, 1913-1923 and in Ljuberzy, 1916.

In 1917 he was elected Vice President of the Academy of Arts. In 1923 he returned to Yerevan, where he led the expansion of the city. As Chief Engineer of the Armenian SSR and as a member of the Central Executive Council of the Armischen SSR (1925-1936) he was responsible for the urban development plans of Leninakan (now Gyumri ) 1925 Nor- Bayaset (now Gawar ) AHTA - ahpara (both 1927) and Etchmiadzin (1927-1928) responsible. Tamanjan created in 1924 the first general plan for Yerevan. Among his most famous buildings there include the hydroelectric power plant ( Erges -1, 1926), the Operntheather and the Republic Square ( 1926-1941 ). Also known as preservationists Tamanjan came into existence.

• Architect ( Armenia)
• Architect of historicism
• Neoclassicism
• Armenian
• Born in 1878
• Died in 1936
• Man