HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
WINERY AND BRANDY FACTORY OF HAMBARTSUM SOGHOMONYAN (now - BUILDING OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF ARMENIA)
Mid-1890s - early 1910s
State index: 1.6.190
Architect: Boris Mehrabyan
The building is located at 2 Melik-Adamyan Street. Previously, it was situated at the intersection of Tumanyan and Yeznik Koghbatsi Streets, specifically at 23/1 Tumanyan Street.
Yerevan entrepreneur Hambartsum Soghomonyan, who came from the prominent Tbilisi Solomonov family that established a wine and vodka factory in Tbilisi in 1853, founded his own brandy factory in Yerevan in the mid-1890s. His factory produced brandy, wine, vodka, liqueurs, and fruit preserves, becoming the second largest in production volume after the factories of Nikolai Shustov and David Saradzhyan. As production expanded, Soghomonyan commissioned the construction of a new building on Doctor’s Street (now Tumanyan Street) in the early 1910s. The project was designed by Boris Mehrabyan, who was also responsible for the 1906-1911 Yerevan master plan.
According to 1915 records, the factory building included offices, cellars, and a cooper’s workshop, and was clad in black hewn tuff. The one- and two-story structures were arranged around an inner courtyard.
Following the Sovietization of Armenia, the factory
was nationalized and, for decades, operated as a printing house. By a decision
of the Government of the Republic of Armenia, the building was relocated and
reconstructed on Melik-Adamyan Street, where it has housed the central office
of the Republican Party of Armenia since 2001. A third floor was added during
the relocation.
The building is notable as an example of late 19th to
early 20th-century industrial architecture.
“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO
Yerevan Municipality
