Vartan Stepanovich Sarkisov (Sargsyan) ( hy, Վարդան Սարգսյան; russian: Вартан Степанович Саркисов; March 8, 1875,

Shusha / hy, Շուշի , settlement_type = City , image_skyline = ShushaCollection2021.jpg , image_caption = Landmarks of Shusha, from top left:Ghazanchetsots Cathedral • Yukhari Govha ...

Elisabethpol Governorate The Elizavetpol Governorate, also known after 1918 as the Ganja Governorate, was a province ('' guberniya'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Yelisavetpol (present-day Ganja). The area of the governorate st ...

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– March 29, 1955, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) was a

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architect of the first half of the twentieth century.

Life

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origin, Vartan Stepanovich Sarkisov attained his primary education at the local

Shusha / hy, Շուշի , settlement_type = City , image_skyline = ShushaCollection2021.jpg , image_caption = Landmarks of Shusha, from top left:Ghazanchetsots Cathedral • Yukhari Govha ...

Realschule. Soon after graduation, he continued his education in

Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million p ...

where he studied at the

Realschule ''Realschule'' () is a type of secondary school in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It has also existed in Croatia (''realna gimnazija''), the Austrian Empire, the German Empire, Denmark and Norway (''realskole''), Sweden (''realskola''), ...

and graduated in 1894 having honors. At the time of his study, he was started to paint skillfully. He also had an interest for opera music, which he preserved for all his life. Having graduated Realschule in

, Sargsyan moved to

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

and entered the St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineering. He was also a classmate of renowned architect Nikolai Bayev. After graduating the university in 1901, he moved to

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to attain work experience. In 1907 he moved to Baku and immediately received requests for a series of projects. His architectural style was modern. Later on in his career, he switched to neoclassicism. In the 1920s when the Construction Institute opened in Baku, Sarkisov was invited as a lecturer and occupied the post of dean for many years. Vartan Sarkisov died in Baku on March 29, 1955 and is buried in the Narimanov Cemetery. In September 2007, the local Azerbaijani government ordered to relocate the Narimanov Cemetery.

Work

Vardan Sarkisov designed the Oil Producers Sanatorium building in Mardakan (1930), a male gymnasium, Residence on Krasnovodskaya street (1908; today Torgovaya ( Nizami) Street and Samad Vurghun Avenue intersection; this building is also where

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was born), reconstructed the

Ismailiyya building The Ismailiyya Palace ( az, İsmailiyyə Sarayı) is a historical building that currently serves as the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan. It is on Istiglaliyyat Street in Baku. The palace was constructed for the Muslim Charity ...

which was burned during the

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in 1918, 7 floor apartment of the Baku Armenian millionaire Mirzabekov (Mirzabekyan) in Nikolayevskaya street (1908), and the Residence of Tigran Melikov (Khagani Street, 27).

Buildings

File:Landau_house_in_Baku.jpg, Residence on Krasnovodskaya street.

lived in this house till 1924. File:Semietagka_Baku.JPG, The house of Mirzabekov (Mirzabekyan) brothers on Nikolayevskaya street (today

Istiglaliyyat Street Istiglaliyyat Street ( az, Istiqlaliyyət küçəsi) is an arterial road in the central uptown part of Baku, Azerbaijan. It begins at Gulustan Palace, located on the southern hillside part of Baku, and continues north, then northeast, terminatin ...

) File:Old Building at Istiglaliyyat Street in Baku 2010 (2).jpg, The house of Mirzabekov (Mirzabekyan) brothers at night.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sarkisov, Vartan 1875 births 1955 deaths Architects from Shusha People from Elizavetpol Governorate Ethnic Armenian architects Armenian people from the Russian Empire Soviet Armenians Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering alumni