HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
INSTITUTE BUILDING: INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND VETERINARY SCIENCE
1928
State index: 1.6.79
Architect: Alexander Tamanyan
Located
on the northeast corner of the intersection of Nalbandyan and Alek Manukyan
streets, next to the Ring Park.
Founded
on June 28, 1928, as a veterinary-bacteriological institute. In August of the
same year, the first admission of students took place, and on November 8, the
grand opening was held.
In
1930, the Transcaucasian Institute of Animal Husbandry was established in
Yerevan.
On
October 25, 1931, by a joint decision of the Council of People's Commissars of
the Armenian SSR and the Central Executive Committee of the Transcaucasian
Federation, the two institutes were merged, and the Yerevan Institute of Animal
Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine was created. The founders were professors B.
Masino (first rector), S. Smirensky, A. Kalantar, A. Tamashev, B. Mikhailov, M.
Hambaryan, A. Maghakyan.
Initially,
the institute had two faculties: Veterinary (1928) and Animal Husbandry (1931).
Later, new ones opened: Engineering and Technology of Milk and Dairy Products
(1961), Professional Development (1965), and Social Professions (1969). In
1971, a preparatory department was opened. In 1932, a correspondence institute
was established, which was reorganized into a faculty of distance learning in
1950. It has a rich library and printing house (founded in 1946).
By
the decision of the Government of the Republic of Armenia on July 7, 1994, as a
result of the merger of the Armenian Agricultural and Yerevan Animal
Husbandry-Veterinary Institutes, the Armenian Agricultural Academy was formed,
which by Government Decision No. 1597 of September 15, 2005, was renamed the
State Agrarian University of Armenia, and by Decision No. 872 of July 14, 2012
- the National Agrarian University of Armenia.
The
construction site of the main three-story building of the institute was
determined by the first general plan of Yerevan, developed by architect
Alexander Tamanyan in 1924. Design and initial construction work began in 1928,
then Tamanyan built a second building in the direction of Getar, harmonizing
with the main one. Later, auxiliary buildings were constructed on the
institute's territory. A new multi-story building was constructed in 1970.
“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO
Yerevan Municipality
