Varazdat Harutyunyan
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First row from left: Varazdat Harutyunyan, Catholicos Vazgen I, K. Altunyan
Second row from left: B. Arzoumanian, H. Babakhanian, Grigor Khanjyan, Artsrun Galikyan, M. Hovhannisyan
Varazdat Harutyunyan (also Harutiunian, Armenian: Վարազդատ Հարությունյան; 29 November 1909 in Van – 20 March 2008 in Yerevan) was an Armenian academic, architect and writer.
Biography
[edit]Harutyunyan was born in the Ottoman Empire, in the town of Van, but he and his family were forced to flee into Russian territory during the Armenian genocide.[citation needed] They settled first in Tbilisi and then in Yerevan. In 1946, he obtained his Ph.D., and then Doctor of Science in architecture. In 1964, he became a professor of history. In 1996 he was elected Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. In Armenia, he was also president of the Society for Protection of Historical Monuments.[citation needed]
He was the author of over 40 books and over 800 articles, mostly on Armenian architecture.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Hushardzan, Annual 3, p223-224, Yerevan, 2005.
External links
[edit]- Life of Academician Varazdat Harutyunyan Armenian: ՀՀԳԱԱ ԱԿԱԴԵՄԻԿՈՍ ՎԱՐԱԶԴԱՏ ՀԱՐՈՒԹՅՈՒՆՅԱՆԻ ԿԱՅՔ
- Academic and Architect Varazdat Harutyunyan speaking about Baghdasar Arzoumanian (April, 2007, in Armenian) on YouTube
- 1909 births
- 2008 deaths
- 20th-century Armenian architects
- 20th-century Armenian historians
- People from Van, Turkey
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- National Polytechnic University of Armenia alumni
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to the Russian Empire
- Armenian genocide survivors
- Armenians from the Ottoman Empire
- Soviet architects
- Soviet historians