HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

1950s

The building is located on Charents Street.

Initially, the Institute of Fine Organic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR was housed here, and in 1973 the building was allocated to the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR.

It is a three-story structure with a rectangular floor plan, organized on all floors around a system of rooms grouped along a longitudinal corridor intersected at its ends by perpendicular corridors. All façades have architecturally symmetrical compositions. The main façade is distinguished by expressive forms. At its center, recessed from the general plane, is a two-story entrance hall formed by an arcade of columns and arches with the main entrance opening. Above the entrance hall, on the third floor, there is an open balcony extending along the conference hall.

Among the constructive and decorative elements of the main façade are rhythmically arranged windows, the cornice bands of the second and third floors, as well as the arcade emphasizing the rhythm of the third-floor corner windows. The eastern façade facing the courtyard is also recessed from the general plane and features a centrally located service entrance door. The building material is finely dressed pink tuff stone.

With its volumetric-spatial composition and height, the building harmonizes with the surrounding street development. Its composition is rooted in the traditions of Armenian national culture and executed through the use of architectural forms characteristic of the Tamanyan school. It is one of the representative buildings of 1950s Yerevan.