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Freidun Aghalyan

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Freidun Aghalyan

Freidun Aghalyan (November 20, 1876 in Shusha, Russian Empire – February 1, 1944 in Yerevan) was an Armenian architect.

In 1903 Aghalian finished the Saint-Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineering. In 1903-1921 he constructed railroad bridges, gymnasium, the Treasury palace and Workers' House in Baku, and the Armenian church of Armavir, Russia. In 1921 he moved to Yerevan, headed the construction department of Kanaker. He is the author of Kanaker HES and several other buildings in Yerevan, Kanaker and Getamej. Since 1917 Aghalian also worked as a lecturer in Baku and then in Yerevan.

Freidun Aghalyan's plaque in Yerevan

Sources

  • Concise Armenian Encyclopedia, Ed. by. acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Book 1, Yerevan, 1990, p. 121