NIKOLAI BAEV ARMENIAN ARCHITECT

On October 6, 1875, Nikolai Baev was born in Astrakhan, an Armenian architect who worked mostly in occupied Baku in the 1910s, and in Soviet Armenia from the 1920s. He built more than 100 buildings in occupied Baku and about 200 buildings in Yerevan..

In 1911-18 he worked as the chief architect of occupied Baku. During this period, he built more than 100 buildings, including the Bolshoi Theater of the Mailov Brothers ( occupied Azerbaijan State Opera House), the Sabunchi railway station, the residential sector in the former Ermenikend district of Baku, etc.

In 1927, Baev moved to Yerevan and worked as the head of Armselstroy and built about 200 buildings, including the Yerevan Palace of Pioneers, the State Bank of the Armenian SSR, the Ministry of Justice, the Yerevan Mechanical Plant, the old hall of the Sundukyan Theater, the Ararat Trust building, etc.