Grigor Aghababyan

Grigor Aghababyan studied at National Polytechnic University of Armenia. Works named in the authority record are Yerevan Central Covered Market and Great Bridge of Hrazdan. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Badge of Honour, Honored Art Worker of the Armenian SSR, Order of the Red Banner of Labour and VDNKh gold medal.

• Name — Grigor Aghababyan • Native Name — Գրիգոր Աղաբաբյան • Other Names — Grigoriy Gareginovich Agababyan • Birth Name — Grigor Garegini Aghababyan • Born — 12 June 1911 • Birthplace — Alexandrapol (now Gyumri), Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire • Died — 9 October 1977 • Place of death — Goris, Armenian SSR, USSR • Burial Place — Tokhmakh cemetery, Yerevan, Armenia • Education — National Polytechnic University of Armenia • Occupation — Architect

• Illustration — Yerevan Central Covered Market (1952) Grigor Garegini Aghababyan was born on 12 June 1911, in Alexandrapol (now Gyumri), 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 died on 9 October 1977. He was awarded the title of Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Construction and Architecture (1957); Honored Worker of Art of the Armenian SSR in 1961; and Honored Architect of the Armenian SSR in 1968.

• Illustration — Monument to Hovhannes Tumanyan (1957), Yerevan; sculpture by Ara Sargsyan • 1943, John Kirakosyan School No. 20, Yerevan • 1952, Yerevan Central Covered Market, Yerevan • 1953, Hovhannes Tumanyan Museum, Yerevan • 1956, Great Bridge of Hrazdan, Yerevan • 1957, Monument to Hovhannes Tumanyan, Yerevan, as architect; sculpture by Ara Sargsyan