HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

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YEREVAN BRANDY COMPANY


1944, 1952


State index: 1.6.8

Architect: Hovhannes Margaryan


Located at 2 Admiral Isakov Avenue, in the residential area of Nor Kilikia.

At the end of the 19th century and in the first decades of Soviet rule, brandy production in Yerevan was combined with winemaking. In order to separate them, it was decided to build a new brandy factory in the 1940s.


Construction of the three-story main building of the factory began in 1949 according to the design of architect Hovhannes Margaryan and was completed in 1952. In 1953, brandy production, having finally separated from the Yerevan Wine-Brandy-Vodka Factory, moved to the new building and produced its first products. Red tuff, reminiscent of the color of brandy, was specially chosen as the building stone.

On the walls, on the tuff surface, there are bas-reliefs on historical themes, created by sculptor Artashes Hovsepyan.

Next to the main building is an administrative building with a similar architectural design (architect: Hovhannes S. Margaryan).

Over the years, along with the expansion of production, a laboratory building was constructed (1975), which also houses an exhibition hall and a tasting room, and blending workshops (1989). Architects: Sergey Nersisyan, Baghdasar Arzumanyan, Ashot Aleksanyan.


All buildings have a combined solution of modern and Armenian classical architectural forms.

The works of applied art located on the complex territory (sculptor-ceramist: Hripsime Simonyan), the monument to the honored brandy master Margar Sedrakyan (1975), and the khachkar of Mr. Pirbakhsh, brought from the large Armenian cemetery of old Julfa, created in 1579, form a successful combination with the architecture of the industrial structures.

In 1998, the factory was privatized and became part of the international Pernod Ricard group.


Armenian brandy has international recognition. As early as 1901, when brandy production was concentrated in the hands of the Russian company “Nikolay Shustov and Sons”, N. Shustov anonymously sent brandy samples to an exhibition in Paris. The judges and the French taster unanimously awarded the “Grand Prix” to the unknown brandy producer, but when it was revealed that the brandy was sent from Armenia, they were so surprised that, as an exception, they allowed Shustov to write the word Cognac on the labels instead of Brandy. In fact, N. Shustov became the first and only foreign producer in the history of brandy-making to be granted such a privilege.

Armenian brandy was also highly valued by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO


Yerevan Municipality


2 Isakov Ave.