Grigor Garegini Aghababyan (, ; 1911–1977) was a Soviet Armenian architect. His most notable works include the Great Bridge of Hrazdan (1949–1956) in Yerevan, and the (1952).
Biography
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.
Works
1943, , Yerevan 1952, , Yerevan 1953, Hovhannes Tumanyan Museum, Yerevan 1956, Great Bridge of Hrazdan, Yerevan 1957, , Yerevan, as architect; sculpture by Ara Sargsyan
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