Grigor Aghababyan

Grigor Garegini Aghababyan (Armenian: Գրիգոր Աղաբաբյան, Russian: Агабабян, Григорий Гарегинович; 1911–1977) was a Soviet Armenian architect.^[1] His most notable works include the Great Bridge of Hrazdan (1949–1956) in Yerevan, and the Yerevan Central Covered Market [hy; ru] (1952).^[2]

Grigor Aghababyan
Գրիգոր Աղաբաբյան
Born	Grigor Garegini Aghababyan 12 June 1911 Alexandrapol (now Gyumri), Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire
Died	9 October 1977 Goris, Armenian SSR, USSR
Burial place	Tokhmakh cemetery, Yerevan, Armenia
Other names	Grigoriy Gareginovich Agababyan
Education	National Polytechnic University of Armenia
Occupation	Architect

Biography

Yerevan Central Covered Market [hy; ru] (1952)

Grigor Garegini Aghababyan was born on 12 June 1911, in Alexandrapol (now Gyumri), Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire.^[3][2] He graduated from National Polytechnic University of Armenia in 1937.^[2]

From 1950 until 1959, Aghababyan was the chief architect of Yerevan, and from 1959 until 1977 he was the chairman of the state construction committee of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.^[4]

He was awarded the title of Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Construction and Architecture (1957); Honored Artist of the Armenian SSR (1961); and Honored Architect of the Armenian SSR (1968).^[1][2]

Works

Monument to Hovhannes Tumanyan [hy] (1957), Yerevan; sculpture by Ara Sargsyan

• 1943, John Kirakosyan School No. 20 [hy], Yerevan
• 1952, Yerevan Central Covered Market [hy; ru], Yerevan^[2]
• 1953, Hovhannes Tumanyan Museum, Yerevan^[5]
• 1956, Great Bridge of Hrazdan, Yerevan^[2]
• 1957, Monument to Hovhannes Tumanyan [hy], Yerevan, as architect; sculpture by Ara Sargsyan^[6]