Mark Grigorian

Mark Vladimirovich Grigorian (, ; April 29, 1900 – January 10, 1978) was a Soviet Armenian Neoclassical architect.

Life

Born Markos Varderesovich Ter-Grigoryan in Nakhichevan-on-Don, southern Russia, Grigorian moved to Soviet Armenia in 1924. He graduated from the Yerevan State University in 1928 and was appointed as the chief architect of Yerevan in 1939, succeeding Nikoghayos Buniatyan.

Works

Grigorian designed (or co-designed) several major landmarks of Yerevan, including the buildings where the three branches of the government are housed—all on Baghramyan Avenue, and three of the five buildings around Republic Square, along with .

Below are listed his most notable works, all in Yerevan:

Awards

• Honored Artist of the Armenian SSR (11.18.1940)
• Order of Lenin (24.11.1945)
• Stalin Prize of 3rd degree (1951) – for the architecture of the building of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Armenian SSR in Yerevan
• Honored Architect of the Armenian SSR (1969)
• State Prize of the Armenian SSR (1971) – for the creation of the ensemble of V.I. Lenin Square in Yerevan
• Order of the Badge of Honour

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