| Nikolai Markov | |
| Nationality: | Russian |
| Birth Date: | 9 January 1883 |
| Birth Place: | Tbilisi, Russian Empire (now Georgia) |
| Death Place: | Tehran, Iran |
| Resting Place: | Doulab Cemetery, Tehran |
| Significant Buildings: | Alborz High School, Holy Mother of God Church, Tehran, Fakhr al-Dawla Mosque |
| Alma Mater: | Imperial Academy of Arts |
Nikolai Lvovich Markov (ru|Николай Львович Марков, fa| نیکولای مارکف, 9 January 1883 – 19 November 1957) was a Russian architect working in Iran.
Nikolai Markov was born in Tiflis. He got his education at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg and at the Persian Department of the Oriental Faculty of Saint Petersburg University.[1]
Prior to his decisive settling in Iran, Markov was a high-ranking member of the Imperial Russian army, and fought in the Caucasus against the Bolsheviks under Colonel Nikolai Baratov, the commander of the Russian forces in Iran and to whose staff he was attached, and had served with the fanatically anti-Bolshevik Major-General Lazar Bicherakov, another one of Baratov's senior officers.[2]
A staunch supporter of the White movement, in the years around and after the Bolshevik Revolution, he had served as a captain in the Persian Cossack Brigade under General Vsevolod Starosselsky as well.
Nikolai Markov later worked for the Municipality of Tehran where he built many buildings.[3] [4] [5] [6] There are Alborz High School, the Post Office and Telecommunications of Tehran, factories and even a mosque.[7] He was buried at the Doulab Cemetery.