Tamar Tumanyan Explained

Tamar Tumanyan
Native Name:Թամար Թումանյան
Native Name Lang:hy
Birth Name:Tamar Hovhannesi Tumanyan
Birth Date:1907
Birth Place:Tbilisi, Russian Empire
Death Date:1989
Death Place:Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR
Education:National Polytechnic University of Armenia, National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia
Occupation:Architect
Father:Hovhannes Tumanyan

Tamar Hovhannesi Tumanyan (1907–1989;) was a Soviet Armenian architect. She was awarded the title, Honored Worker of Culture of the Armenian SSR (1977).[1] Her father was poet and writer Hovhannes Tumanyan.

Biography

Tamar Tumanyan was born in 1907 in Tbilisi, Russian Empire to parents and the noted poet Hovhannes Tumanyan.[2] [3] She was the youngest of 10 children in her family.[4] Her siblings included Musegh (1889–1938), Ashkhen (1891–1968), Nvard (1892–1957), Artavazd (1894–1918), Hamlik (1896–1937), Anush (1898–1927), Arpik (1899–1981), Areg (1900–1939), and Seda (1905–1988).[5] Tamar received her primary education at in Tbilisi.

She attended Yerevan Polytechnic Institute (now the National Polytechnic University of Armenia); followed by study at the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia.

Starting in 1933, she worked as an architect in Alexander Tamanian's studio in Yerevan. It was at Tamanian's studio where she participated in the design of the Yerevan Opera Theatre (1939), and the Government House, Yerevan (1941). She later worked as an architect in Mark Grigorian's studio.

From 1945 to 1949 she was the secretary of the Union of Architects of Armenia. From 1947 to 1951 she was the chairman of the board of the Armenian Architectural Fund. From 1966 to 1989, she worked as the director of the Hovhannes Tumanyan Museum in Yerevan.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Թամար Թումանյան . AV Production . hy.
  2. Web site: 2009 . The Children . https://web.archive.org/web/20170510134756/http://www.toumanian.am/toumanian/html/kens/zavakner.html . May 10, 2017 . Hovhannes Tumanyan Museum . hy.
  3. Web site: September 11, 2019 . Tumanyan the Photographer: Exhibition honoring the great Armenian poet from another perspective . 2022-08-29 . Armenpress.am . en.
  4. Web site: Թամար Թումանյան . Tamar Tumanyan (1907–1989) . 2022-08-29 . Urbanista.am . hy.
  5. Web site: February 19, 2014 . 145th birth anniversary of 'All-Armenian poet' Hovhannes Tumanyan . 2022-08-29 . PanARMENIAN.Net.