Murad Hasratyan (; born June 20, 1935) is an

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Biography

He was born in

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to an educated family. His father,

Morus Hasratyan Morus (Margar) Stepani Hasratyan (Armenian: Մորուս Հասրաթյան, September 10, 1902 – February 25, 1979) was a Soviet Armenian historian and philologist. He was the director of the History Museum of Armenia from 1964 to 1975. He w ...

was a renowned historian-philologist, honorary figure of the

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, the first student of the Faculty of History at Yerevan State University, later, he was the Director of

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. In 1958 he graduated from the Architecture Department of the

Yerevan Polytechnic Institute The National Polytechnic University of Armenia () is a technical university located in Yerevan, Armenia. Established as the Karl Marx Institute of Polytechnic in 1933, it provides educational and research programs in various fields of technology ...

with a diploma of excellence, receiving the qualification "Architect" At the institute he was taught by the professors Rafayel Israyelyan, Samvel Safaryan,

Varazdat Harutyunyan Varazdat Harutyunyan (also Harutiunian, ; 29 November 1909 in Van, Turkey, Van – 20 March 2008 in Yerevan) was an Armenian academic, architect and writer. Biography Harutyunyan was born in the Ottoman Empire, in the town of Van, Turkey, ...

, and the head of his diploma work was Mikayel Mazmanyan.

Career

As a senior architect, he started to work at the newly opened Yerevan Project Institute, in Gevorg Tamanyan studio. He designed several projects: residential and administrative buildings, schools (afte
Shirvanzade
1961), designed the plans of the settlement after Lukashin and the settlements of Kanaker Hydro Power Plant (1959-1961) Since 1964, he worked at Academy of Arts of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia as a junior researcher, then he became the Scientific Secretary of the Institute. In 1969 he became a

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with defending his thesis on "“Architectural complexes of Syunik region 16-18th centuries". He has headed the Architecture Department of the Institute of Arts of the

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since 1988. Since 1999 he teaches at the Yerevan State university.

Researches

M. Hasratyan has measured around 150 monuments in Armenia. He was the first one to research and put into scientific circulation: Tashi’s monument, early

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monuments of

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, Sarakap, the monasteries in Artsakh- Amaras,

Dadivank Dadivank () or Khutavank (Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette, ''Petit fûté Arménie''. Paris: Nouvelles éditions de l'Université, 2005, p. 203.) is an Armenian Apostolic monastery in the Kalbajar District of Azerbaijan. It was built be ...

, Khratravank, Gandzasar Monastery, Gtchavank, and numerous churches, including the famous Ghazanchetsots Cathedral, have been measured by the medieval Armenian architectural monuments of the Nagorno-Karabakh region. In Nakhichevan Hasratyan "has been measuring, analyzing, and putting in scientific circulation many monuments, including the Astrapid Red Monastery, which had been destroyed by the “owners” of Nakhichevan not long after and continues to exist only in M. Hasratyan's assessments and descriptions. He was the first to explore the Armenian-

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, Armenian- Georgian, Armenian -Iranian architectural relations

Books

Hasratyan is the author of nearly two dozen books, numerous brochures, hundreds of articles, theses, reviews and encyclopedia articles published in Armenia, Moscow, Kiev, Tbilisi, Paris, Lyon, Vienna, Lisbon, Rome, Venice, Milan, Bologna, Naples , Montreal, Yokohama, Ankara. Hasratyan's first book was about the architecture of Yerevan, his birthplace, which was published in

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on the 2750th anniversary of the founding of Yerevan in 1968, in co-authorship with Varazdat Harutyunyan and Arsen Melikyan in 1968. The same composition of the author on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the

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was published in Moscow in 1972 by the "Architecture of Soviet Armenia"։ For the collective fundamental work of "History of Armenian Art", which authored sections dedicated to the history of

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Hasratyan was awarded the 2009 State Prize in Fine Arts. Co-author of several Armenian architectural history (Yerevan, Russian language, 1968, “

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of Soviet

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, in Russian language 1972, “ Kecharis”, in English and Italian languages, 1982 “ Gandzasar”). .

Memberships

1998-Associate member of Armenia's engineering academy 2006-associate member in the National Academy of Sciences of RA 2015-Associate member of the

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Awards

* State Prize of Armenia, 2009 * Gold Medal of Yerevan * National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Prize after Toros Toramanyan for his work “Armenian architecture during Early Christianity period", Moscow 2010 *Prime Minister's Commemorative Medal * Central Committee prize winner (1971) *

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(1993)

References

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