Nikolai Bayev Explained
| Nikolai Bayev |
| Birth Date: | October 6, 1875 |
| Birth Place: | Astrakhan, Russia |
| Death Place: | Yerevan, Soviet Armenia |
| Occupation: | Architect, civil engineer |
| Nationality: | Armenian |
Nikolay Georgievich Bayev (Russian: Николай Георгиевич Баев; Armenian: Նիկողայոս Գևորգի Բաև, Nikoghayos Gevorki Bayev;[1] October 6, 1875 - August 5, 1952) was an Armenian architect, who mainly worked in Baku in the 1910s and in Soviet Armenia since the 1920s.
Biography
Baev was born in Astrakhan on September 12, 1875. He was a relative and childhood friend of Mariinsky Opera singer Nadezhda Papayan.[2] He studied in local gymnasium and when studying he also expressed love towards arts, music and painting. Bayev attended the Saint Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineering, from which he graduated in 1901. From 1911 to 1918 he worked as the main architect of Baku.[3] During this period he constructed more than 100 buildings in Baku, including the Great Theatre of the Mailov Brothers (modern days Azerbaijan State Opera Theatre, 1911),[4] Sabunchi Railway Station,[5] [6] [7] a residential sector in the former Ermenikend area of Baku,[8] and other buildings.[9] [10]
In 1927 Bayev moved to Yerevan and from 1929 to 1930 worked as the head of ArmSelStroy[11] (Armenian agency for rural construction), where he constructed about 200 buildings, among them Pioneer's Palace of Yerevan,[12] State Bank of Armenian SSR, Ministry of Justice, Yerevan Mechanical factory, old hall of Sundukyan Theatre, "Ararat" trust buildings, etc.[13] [8] In 1945 he was awarded by the Honorary diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR.
He was a member of Armenian Union of Architects (1942).[14] Bayev's personal archive (1896-1952) is a part of Yerevan State Archive.[11]
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- News: Yesayan. Anahit. Բաքվի լավագույն բազմաթիվ շենքեր հայ ճարտարապետներն են կառուցել. Aravot. 4 February 2013. hy. ...Նիկողայոս Բաև....
- https://books.google.com/books?id=8AcrAAAAIAAJ&q=%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9+%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2+%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80 Nadezhda Papai︠a︡n, by Vardan Samveli︠a︡n, Yerevan, Izd-vo "Aiastan,", 1965, p. 12
- Web site: Armenia - Russia: The dialogue in the space of artistic culture . . 16 . ru . November 2010 . ...Н. Баев — городской архитектор Баку... . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141026183257/http://sias.ru/upload/iblock/763/Kazarian_140x205.pdf . October 26, 2014 .
- The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture: Delhi to Mosque By Jonathan M. Bloom, Sheila Blair, p. 238
- Web site: (in Russian) L. Bretanitski, "Baku", 1970 . 2013-03-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121209163824/http://ebooks.preslib.az/pdfbooks/rubooks/bku.pdf . 2012-12-09 . dead .
- Архитектура железнодорожных вокзалов: Евгений Васильевич Васильев, Николай Николаевич Щетинин, 1967, p. 37
- Socialist Realism Without Shores, by Thomas Lahusen and Evgeny Dobrenko, 1997, Duke University Press,, p. 97
- Armenian Concise Encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdian, Yerevan, 1990, Vol. 1, p. 446-447
- http://www.proza.ru/2011/06/01/42 Архитекторы Азербайджана 19 и начала 20-го века. Татьяна Надеждина
- http://www.baku.ru/enc-show.php?id=152395&cmm_id=276 Баев Николай Георгиевич – архитектор
- http://www.rusarchives.ru/guide/lf_ussr/bab_bar.shtml Bayev. Archival references. RusArchives.ru
- Ереван: очерк истории, экономики и культуры города - Абель Рогноси Симонян - 1965, p. 247
- (2005) Who is who: Armenians, Armenian encyclopedia. 2005, Yerevan, pp. 191-192
- Web site: Biography, Armenian Union of Architects . 2015-10-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151208045326/http://uaa.am/members/1890-1914/baev-nikolay-georgievich.HTML . 2015-12-08 . dead .
