HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

1981

Restored in 1993

Architects: Arthur Tarkhanyan, Spartak Khachikyan, Levon Cherkezyan, Georges Shehlyan, constructor: Sergey Baghdasaryan

State Prize of the Armenian SSR: 1985

Located 15 km west of Yerevan, near the village of Parakar in the Armavir region of the Republic of Armenia.

Founded in 1961 under the name “Western”. Later renamed to “Zvartnots”. The new building was designed in 1974 and put into operation in 1981. The authors of the structure were awarded the State Prize of the Armenian SSR in 1985.

With the construction of Zvartnots Airport, Soviet Armenia acquired a powerful means of transport connecting the republic with the outside world, with runways meeting international standards. At that time in the Soviet Union, such runways were only in Moscow and Kyiv. After a year of operation, the Civil Aviation Administration of Armenia set a record by transporting 2.5 million passengers.

The airport, with its volumetric-spatial solution, impressive proportions, precise geometric and aesthetic accent, merged with the locality, becoming an integral part of it. The authors were able to use the achievements and capabilities of the material and technical base and construction art of that time with mathematical precision. The unique load-bearing structures of the building serve as artistic decor for the interior and exterior.

The composition consists of two truncated cones inserted into each other. Above the small cone rises a 60-meter tower, in the upper part of which are located the airport's control room and a restaurant. In the outer volume (second level) is the waiting hall for departing passengers. In the center are service rooms. On the first level is the hall for arriving passengers.

Reinforced concrete and glass were used as building materials.

According to an agreement between the Government of the Republic of Armenia and the Argentine company Corporacion America, since June 2002, the airport has been transferred to concession management to Armenia International Airports CJSC for a period of 30 years.

In 2019, Zvartnots Airport served more than 3 million passengers, and in 2022 - more than 3.5 million passengers.

Zvartnots Airport is one of the achievements of Soviet modernist architecture in Armenia and has received recognition from architecture specialists, and its design has been repeatedly noted among the most interesting architectural structures of the 20th century.

“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO

Yerevan Municipality