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Alexander Tamanian

1878 - 1936

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Alexander Tamanian (Armenian: Ալեքսանդր Թամանյան; March 4, 1878 – February 20, 1936) was a Russian-born Armenian neoclassical architect, well known for his work in the city of Yerevan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Tamanian has received more than 82,118 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Alexander Tamanian is the 205th most popular architect (up from 241st in 2019), the 770th most popular biography from Russia (up from 857th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Alexander Tamanian ranks 205 out of 518. Before him are Henning Larsen, Henri Labrouste, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Lilly Reich, Elissa Aalto, and Christian de Portzamparc. After him are Adolphe Appia, Jacques Lemercier, Nicholas Negroponte, Friedrich von Gärtner, Josep Lluís Sert, and Ferdinand Fellner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Alexander Tamanian ranks 71. Before him are Stephen Timoshenko, Walter Heitz, Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, Horacio Quiroga, Maurice René Fréchet, and José Miaja. After him are Kurt Goldstein, Wander Johannes de Haas, Erich Mühsam, Mikhail Artsybashev, Maxie Long, and Grigory Petrovsky. Among people deceased in 1936, Alexander Tamanian ranks 78. Before him are Gustave Kahn, Arvid Lindman, Sergey Kamenev, Édouard Herzen, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, and Nahum Sokolow. After him are Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Hu Hanmin, Nestor Lakoba, Alexandros Zaimis, Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh, and Oskar Barnack.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Tamanian ranks 770 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Speransky (1772), Karl Lennart Oesch (1892), Alexey Kaledin (1861), Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev (1843), Andor Lilienthal (1911), and Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841). After him are Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia (1850), Yegor Gaidar (1956), Serge Koussevitzky (1874), Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746), Mikhail Kasyanov (1957), and Rachel Bluwstein (1890).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Russia

Among architects born in Russia, Alexander Tamanian ranks 3. Before him are Bruno Taut (1880), and Lev Rudnev (1885). After him are Konstantin Melnikov (1890), Konstantin Thon (1794), Joseph Bové (1784), Alexander Kokorinov (1726), Vasily Stasov (1769), Andrey Voronikhin (1759), Vasily Bazhenov (1737), Leon Benois (1856), and Matvey Kazakov (1738).

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