HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
RESIDENTIAL BUILDING
1957
Located
in the area between Moskovyan, Stepan Zoryan, and Alexander Spendiaryan
streets.
The
building was designed between 1948 and 1950. Construction was carried out in
four phases and completed in 1957. It was built by the construction
organization of the Gyumush Hydroelectric Power Plant and was intended for the
employees of the HPP. In addition to energy sector workers, the building was
also inhabited by artists and high-ranking officials.
In
one of the apartments with spacious balconies, scenes from Edmond Keosayan’s
film “Men” (1972) were filmed.
It
is considered one of the best buildings constructed in Yerevan in the 1950s.
The building consists of 13 sections and 147 apartments. Decorative elements in
the entrances incorporate features of medieval Armenian architecture. The
facade decoration—capitals, arches, and cornices—is linked to the artistic
solutions of buildings designed by Alexander Tamanyan.
