Rafajel Israjeljan

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Rafajel Israjeljan (left) and Ara Haroutjounjan

Rafajel Israjeljan ( Armenian Ռաֆայել Իսրայելյան , Russian Рафаель Исраелян ; born September 17 . Jul / thirtieth September  1908 greg. In Tbilisi , Russian Empire , † 8. September 1973 in Yerevan , Armenian SSR ) was an Armenian - Soviet architect and university lecturer .

Life

After attending school and the technical college, Israjeljan studied at the State Academy of Arts in Tbilisi from 1926 to 1928 . Then he moved to Leningrad to the Institute of Civil Engineers , and finally in 1929 to the architecture - Faculty of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture , where in 1934 he completed his studies with distinction and remained until 1936th

From 1936 Israjeljan lived and worked in Yerevan. He designed and built residential houses, public buildings, buildings for industry and agriculture as well as parks and monuments. He also designed book covers and bookplates and made jewelry and ceramics . From 1940 he taught at the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute .

Israjeljan built wine cellars for the Yerevan-Ararat wine factory in 1937–1961 . He built the Hrazdan - Aqueduct (1949-1950) and the Military Museum in Yerevan (1950-1967). In 1950 he created a Stalin monument in Yerevan Victory Park with a Stalin statue by Sergei Merkurov , which was removed in 1962 and replaced in 1967 by Ara Haroutjounjan's mother, Armenia . Israjeljan designed the monument with the sculpture of the dragon slayer Wahagn by the sculptor Karlen Nuridschanjan in 1962. In 1965 he created the khachkar - stele commemorating the genocide of the Armenians at the Cathedral of Etchmiadzin and 1968, the memorial complex for the battle of Sardarapat in Armavir with sculptures of Ara Haroutjounjan, Arsham Schahinjan and Sambel Manasjan and 1973 Hadjin -Widerstandsdenkmal in Nor Hatschn on Hrasdan and in 1976 the Musa Dağı monument in Musaler near Armawir. According to Israjeljan's plans, the St. Sarkis Cathedral in Yerevan was reconstructed in 1976 and the memorial complex for the Battle of Aparan was built in 1979 , as was the Armenian St. Nerses Church in Montevideo .

After Israjeljan’s death, his son Areg, who had also become an architect, took care of completing his father’s unfinished projects.

Honors, prizes

Works

  • Hrasdan aqueduct

  • Dragonslayer Wahagn, Yerevan

  • Khachkar stele at Echmiadzin Cathedral

  • Sardarapat monument complex

  • Musa Dağı monument, musaler

  • Saint Sarkis Cathedral, Yerevan

  • Monument to the battle of Aparan

  • St. Nerses Church, Mondevideo, Montevideo

Web links

Commons : Rafajel Israjeljan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Great Soviet Encyclopedia
  2. ↑ Бабаян Л .: Рафаэл Сергеевич Исраэлян . In: Архитектура СССР . No. 11 , 1968, p. 69-71 .
  3. ↑ Бабаян Л. М., Яралов Ю. С .: Рафаел Исраелян / ЦНИИ теории и истории архитектуры. Институт искусств АН Армянской ССР . Стройиздат, Moscow 1986.
  4. ↑ Парк "Победа" или "Монумент": живая история (accessed on March 5, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Israjeljan, Rafajel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Исраелян, Рафаел (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian-Soviet architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1973
Place of death Yerevan , Armenian SSR