Karo Halabyan

Karo Semyonovich Halabyan (Russian: Каро Семёнович Алабян, Armenian: Կարո Հալաբյան) (July 26, 1897, Elisabethpol, now Ganja - January 5, 1959, Moscow) was a Soviet Armenian architect. He was Honoured promoter of the Art of Armenian SSR (1940).

Karo Halabyan
BornJuly 26, 1897
DiedJanuary 5, 1959(1959-01-05) (aged 61)
NationalitySoviet Armenian
OccupationArchitect

Biography

Monument to the 100th anniversary of Karo Halabyan, Yerevan

In 1917, Halabyan finished Nersisyan School in Tiflis. And 1929 he finished Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. From 1932, he worked in Moscow. In 1943, Halabyan lead the main lay-out of Volgograd. In 1936, he was elected as an honorary correspondent member of Royal Institute of British Architects.[1]

In 1955 he designed the main terminal building of the Port of Sochi.

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