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
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. 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
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.
Dadashov died in
Moscow
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, 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
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...
.
•Building of the Ministry of Food Industry of
Azerbaijan
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(1937–1939).
Awards and premiums
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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)
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Order of Lenin
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Order of the Red Banner of Labour
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Legacy
Research Institute of construction materials in Baku is named after Dadashov.
References
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1905 births
1946 deaths
20th-century Azerbaijani architects
Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University alumni
Architects from Baku
Stalin Prize winners
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Soviet Azerbaijani people
Azerbaijani professors
Azerbaijani architects
Soviet architects
Burials at Alley of Honor
Honored Art Workers of the Azerbaijan SSR