Sadiq Alakbar oglu Dadashov ( az, Sadıq Ələkbər oğlu Dadaşov, 1905 – 1946) was an architect and architecture historian of the Soviet Azerbaijan, Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR (1940), laureate of the Stalin Prize of the 2nd Degree (1941).

Biography

S.A. Dadashov was born on April 15, 1905 in Baku. In 1929, he graduated from Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (afterwards he became its professor). He was the author of books about the

architecture of Azerbaijan Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings ...

. He was a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR (1945). Sadiq Dadashov worked in close cooperation with Mikayil Useynov. He developed progressive traditions of Azerbaijani architecture creatively. He erected many residential and public buildings in Baku and in other cities of

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...

. Dadashov died in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

, on December 24, 1946.

Architectural projects

•Exhibit hall of Azerbaijan SSR in All-Russia Exhibition Centre, in Moscow (1939). •Cinema named after Nizami (1934). • Nizami Museum of Azerbaijani Literature. •Building of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan SSR (1938–1939). •Building of

Baku Academy of Music The Hajibeyov Baku Academy of Music ( Azeri: ''Hacıbəyov adına Bakı Musiqi Akademiyası'') is a music school in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was established in 1920 in Baku and was previously known as the Hajibeyov Azerbaijan State Conservatoire. ...

. •Building of the Ministry of Food Industry of

(1937–1939).

Awards and premiums

* Stalin Prize of the 2nd Degree (1941) – for architectural project of the exhibit hall of Azerbaijan SSR in All-Russia Exhibition Centre (1939) * Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR (1940) * Order of Lenin *

Order of the Red Banner of Labour The Order of the Red Banner of Labour (russian: Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, translit=Orden Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni) was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to the ...

Legacy

Research Institute of construction materials in Baku is named after Dadashov.

References

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