Vartan Sarkisov

Vartan Stepanovich Sarkisov (Sargsyan) (Armenian: Վարդան Սարգսյան; Russian: Вартан Степанович Саркисов; March 8, 1875, Shusha, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire – March 29, 1955, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) was a Soviet architect of the first half of the twentieth century.

Of Armenian origin, Vartan Stepanovich Sarkisov attained his primary education at the local Shusha Realschule.

In the 1920s, when the Construction Institute opened in Baku, Sarkisov was invited as a lecturer and occupied the post of dean for many years.

Vartan Sarkisov died in Baku on March 29, 1955 and is buried in the Narimanov Cemetery.

[5] Vardan Sarkisov designed the Oil Producers Sanatorium building in Mardakan (1930), a male gymnasium, Residence on Krasnovodskaya street (1908; today Torgovaya (Nizami) Street and Samad Vurghun Avenue intersection; this building is also where Lev Landau was born),[6] reconstructed the Ismailiyya building which was burned during the March Days in 1918, 7-floor apartment of the Baku Armenian millionaire Mirzabekov (Mirzabekyan) in Nikolayevskaya street (1908),[6][7] and the Residence of Tigran Melikov (Khagani Street, 27).