Sadiq Dadashov

Sadiq Dadashov
Born	15 April 1905 Baku, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	24 December 1946(1946-12-24) (aged 41) Moscow, Soviet Union
Nationality	Azerbaijani
Awards	Stalin Prize (1941)

Sadiq Alakbar oghlu Dadashov (Azerbaijani: Sadıq Ələkbər oğlu Dadaşov, 1905 – 1946) was an architect and architecture historian of the Soviet Azerbaijan, Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR (1940), laureate of the Stalin Prize of the 2nd Degree (1941).

Biography

S.A. Dadashov was born on April 15, 1905, in Baku. In 1929, he graduated from Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (afterwards he became its professor). He was the author of books about the architecture of Azerbaijan. He was a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR (1945). Sadiq Dadashov worked in close cooperation with Mikayil Useynov. He developed progressive traditions of Azerbaijani architecture creatively. He erected many residential and public buildings in Baku and in other cities of Azerbaijan.

Dadashov died in Moscow, on December 24, 1946.

Azerbaijan postage stamp portraying Sadiq Dadashov and the "Nizami" cinema in Baku

Architectural projects

•Exhibit hall of Azerbaijan SSR in All-Russia Exhibition Centre, in Moscow (1939).

•Cinema named after Nizami (1934).

•Nizami Museum of Azerbaijani Literature.

•Building of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan SSR (1938–1939).

•Building of Baku Academy of Music.

•Building of the Ministry of Food Industry of Azerbaijan (1937–1939).

Awards and premiums

• Stalin Prize of the 2nd Degree (1941) – for architectural project of the exhibit hall of Azerbaijan SSR in All-Russia Exhibition Centre (1939)

• Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR (1940)

• Order of Lenin

• Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Legacy

Research Institute of construction materials in Baku is named after Dadashov.