HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
DAVID SARAJYAN’S WINE AND COGNAC FACTORY
1896-1906
State index: 1.6.200.7
Located at 22 Tigran Mets Avenue (formerly Old Barracks, then October Avenue), at the intersection with Movses Khorenatsi Street.
According to the 1911 property assessment document of
Yerevan resident and trade advisor David Sarajyan (Sarajev), the factory
complex includes a wine cellar, a spirit warehouse, a spirit distillery
(tower-like structure), a heating point, warehouses for various items, a
two-story residential house and office, a cooperage workshop, a two-story house
of the factory owner, and a one-story cognac factory. The total annual income
was 4,338 rubles and 71 kopecks. The main products were wine and cognac.
The arrangement of the monument’s buildings was
determined by their functional and technological purpose. The volumetric and
planning structure of the buildings is not complex. These are structures with
rectangular or near-rectangular plans.
The spirit redistillation building dominates the
composition of the complex. It is a tower-like structure with a rectangular
plan, whose architectural system values the structural features, emphasized
corners of the building, and three-span arches of openings and false windows.
The buildings are constructed of roughly processed or
broken stone, with corner stones made of processed tuff. The flat ceilings of
the administrative building are beam-supported. The roofs are sloped and made
of metal.
Only the redistillation building of the complex has
relatively well preserved. The factory's products were highly popular.
“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO
Yerevan Municipality
