Grigor Aghababyan

Grigor Garegini Aghababyan was a Soviet Armenian architect. His most notable works include the Great Bridge of Hrazdan in Yerevan, and the .

Biography

Grigor Garegini Aghababyan was born on 12 June 1911, in Alexandrapol, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire. He graduated from National Polytechnic University of Armenia in 1937.
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.
He was awarded the title of Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Construction and Architecture ; Honored Artist of the Armenian SSR ; and Honored Architect of the Armenian SSR.

Works

1943,, Yerevan
1952,, Yerevan
1953, Hovhannes Tumanyan Museum, Yerevan
1956, Great Bridge of Hrazdan, Yerevan
1957,, Yerevan, as architect; sculpture by Ara Sargsyan