Alexander Sahinian
Illustration — The sculptural representation of Alexander Arami Sahinyan Alexander Arami Sahinyan (15 July 1910 – 4 November 1982) was a Soviet Armenian architectural historian, who headed the Architecture Department of the Institute of Arts of the Armenian Academy of Sciences between 1958 and 1982. Alexander Sahinian was born in Vardablur village in northern Armenia, he graduated from the architecture department of the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute in 1937. He was employed by a state design institute until the eruption of World War II. Between 1942 and 1944, he served in the Soviet Army and returned to Armenia wounded.
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Alexander Sahinian
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- Born
- 1910 · Vardablur.
- Died
- 1982 · Yerevan.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire · Soviet Union
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- architect · historian
- Education
- National Polytechnic University of Armenia
- Honours
- Honored Art Worker of the Armenian SSR · Armenian SSR State Prize · Order of the Badge of Honour
- Languages
- Armenian
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Illustration — The sculptural representation of Alexander Arami Sahinyan Alexander Arami Sahinyan (15 July 1910 – 4 November 1982) was a Soviet Armenian architectural historian, who headed the Architecture Department of the Institute of Arts of the Armenian Academy of Sciences between 1958 and 1982. Alexander Sahinian was born in Vardablur village in northern Armenia, he graduated from the architecture department of the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute in 1937. He was employed by a state design institute until the eruption of World War II. Between 1942 and 1944, he served in the Soviet Army and returned to Armenia wounded.
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Upon his return, Sahinian was admitted into the postgraduate program of the Armenian Academy of Sciences and began the archaeological excavations at the Aparan (Kasakh) Basilica. Since 1946, he worked at the Art Institute of the Academy of Sciences. Sahinian defended his dissertation on the architecture of the Aparan Basilica in 1952. Sahinian directed the excavations at the Etchmiadzin Cathedral in 1955–56 and 1959 during which fragments of the original 4th-century church building and pre-Christian structures were unearthed. Between 1968 and 1974, he reassembled Armenia's only Greco-Roman colonnaded building, the Garni Temple, which had collapsed in the 17th century. Sahinian died in Yerevan in 1982.
Alexander Sahinian is recorded with the occupation historian. Recorded as having received Honored Art Worker of the Armenian SSR, Armenian SSR State Prize and Order of the Badge of Honour. Within the Encyclopedia. Connected to 1 other published record in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.
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1910
Alexander Sahinian was born on 3 July 1910.
1982
Alexander Sahinian died on 4 November 1982.
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- 1.The Institute of Arts. ճարտարապետության բաժին [Architecture Department].
- 2.Tiratsian, G. A. Ալեքսանդր Սահինյան [Alexander Sahinian]. Patma-Banasirakan Handes. Armenian National Academy of Sciences. 4. 231–232. 1982. 0135-0536.
- 3.none. Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies. 1–2. 11.
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