Nikolai Bayev

Nikolai Bayev
Born	October 6, 1875 Astrakhan, Russian Empire
Died	August 5, 1952(1952-08-05) (aged 76) Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Armenian
Occupation(s)	Architect, civil engineer[1]

Nikolai Georgievich Bayev (Russian: Николай Георгиевич Баев; Armenian: Նիկողայոս Գևորգի Բաև, Nikoghayos Gevorki Bayev;^[1][2] October 6, 1875 – August 5, 1952) was an Armenian^[1] 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.^[3] 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.^[1] From 1911 to 1918 he worked as the main architect of Baku.^[4] 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),^[5] Sabunchi Railway Station,^[6][7][8] a residential sector in the former Ermenikend area of Baku,^[9] and other buildings.^[10][11]

In 1927^[1] Bayev moved to Yerevan and from 1929 to 1930 worked as the head of ArmSelStroy^[12] (Armenian agency for rural construction), where he constructed about 200 buildings, among them Pioneer's Palace of Yerevan,^[13] State Bank of Armenian SSR, Ministry of Justice, Yerevan Mechanical factory, old hall of Sundukyan Theatre, "Ararat" trust buildings, etc.^[14][9] 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).^[15] Bayev's personal archive (1896-1952) is a part of Yerevan State Archive.^[12]

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  Gani Mammadov Residence
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  Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, 1911
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  The former State Bank of Armenia building, Yerevan

References

1. Zhukov, V. Yu. "Баев Николай Георгиевич (Никогайос Геворкович)" (in Russian). Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering.
2. Yesayan, Anahit (4 February 2013). "Բաքվի լավագույն բազմաթիվ շենքեր հայ ճարտարապետներն են կառուցել". Aravot (in Armenian). ...Նիկողայոս Բաև...
3. Nadezhda Papai︠a︡n, by Vardan Samveli︠a︡n, Yerevan, Izd-vo "Aiastan,", 1965, p. 12
4. "Armenia - Russia: The dialogue in the space of artistic culture" (PDF) (in Russian). State Institute of Cultural Studies. November 2010. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 26, 2014. ...Н. Баев — городской архитектор Баку...
5. The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture: Delhi to Mosque By Jonathan M. Bloom, Sheila Blair, p. 238
6. "(in Russian) L. Bretanitski, "Baku", 1970" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-12-09. Retrieved 2013-03-02.
7. Архитектура железнодорожных вокзалов: Евгений Васильевич Васильев, Николай Николаевич Щетинин, 1967, p. 37
8. Socialist Realism Without Shores, by Thomas Lahusen and Evgeny Dobrenko, 1997, Duke University Press, ISBN 0-8223-1941-1, p. 97
9. Armenian Concise Encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdian, Yerevan, 1990, Vol. 1, p. 446-447
10. Архитекторы Азербайджана 19 и начала 20-го века. Татьяна Надеждина
11. Баев Николай Георгиевич – архитектор
12. Bayev. Archival references. RusArchives.ru Archived 2013-01-27 at the Wayback Machine
13. Ереван: очерк истории, экономики и культуры города - Абель Рогноси Симонян - 1965, p. 247
14. (2005) Who is who: Armenians, Armenian encyclopedia. 2005, Yerevan, pp. 191-192
15. "Biography, Armenian Union of Architects". Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2015-10-09.

Bibliography

• Edmond Tigranyan «Activity of Armenian architects in South Caucasus», Yerevan, 2003 - ISBN 978-99930-0-052-5
• (in Russian) Ерканян В.С. Армянская культура в 1800-1917 гг. / Пер. с арм. К.С. Худавердяна. Ер., 1985
• (in Armenian) The Historical-Cultural Heritage of the Armenian Highland, International Conference, Armenia, 2012 / The Role of Armenian Architects in the Formation of Architectural image of City Baku, by Ter-Minasyan A., National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Institute of Arts

Links

• Nikoghayos Baev
• It is a taboo in Azerbaijan that some of best buildings in Baku were constructed by Armenian architects, says Yerevans major architect. Aravot daily, february 2013