HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BUILDING OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA (Formerly BUILDING OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF ARMENIA)
In 1949-1950,
State index: 1.6.164
The main building was designed by architect Mark Grigoryan
Author of the second building: architect M.
Rustamyan
Client: Central Committee of the Communist Party
of Armenia
It is located at 19 Marshal Baghramyan Avenue, 100-120 m from the red line of the avenue, on the hill. The main building was designed in 1946-1947 and it was built in 1949-1950 as the administrative building of the Central Committee. The author is the architect Mark Grigoryan (USSR State Prize in 1951). In 1967 the author, while rebuilding the canteen building, added a floor, which was accomplished in 1982 by architect H. Dokhikyan, who connected it with the main building.
The Central Committee occupied the building until 1991. From May of the same year, it was provided to the Supreme Council of the RA (now the National Assembly of the RA). In 2006-2009 the second building was built next to the main building of the National Assembly. In the project, an attempt was made to correspond the architecture of the subsidiary building with the main one and make their unity harmonious. The main building is built of light yellowish felsite, with a midis layout. The second building is completely a concrete structure, covered with stones of the same color and quality as the felsite tuff of the main building. High-quality wood and artificial building materials were used for interior decoration. Various mediums of decoration are used on the facades: the openings are bordered with traditional ornaments of Armenian architecture. On the central fronton a profile bas-relief of Lenin was installed until 1991, it was later replaced by the sculpture of the state coat of arms of the RA. The building has four floors in the front and five floors in the back. The area is improved, covered with grass and full of trees.
The
building is one of the best administrative structures of Soviet-Armenian
architecture. In 2019 the British Independent newspaper included the building
of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia in the list of the ten most
beautiful parliament buildings in the world, putting it at the 4th
place.
“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO
Yerevan Municipality
