ArmInfo. The monument to architect Karo Alabyan is planned to be installed in the north of Moscow. As reported by Russian media, the decision on this was approved by the Moscow City Duma Commission for Culture and Mass Communications.
As the chairman of the commission Yevgeny Gerasimov said, the Commission on Monumental Art at a meeting on October 12, 2017 considered the initiative to perpetuate the memory of the founder of the Union of Architects of the USSR, vice-president of the Academy of Architecture of the USSR, chief architect of Moscow K. Alabyan.
"The proposal came from the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to the Russian Federation Vardan Toganian.With regard to the positive conclusions of the Department of Cultural Heritage of Moscow and the Committee on Architecture and Urban Planning of Moscow, the Commission decided to support this proposal.We have no controversy about erecting the monument, and are ready to submit this proposal to the first meeting of the Duma, which will take place, apparently, on September 29, "Gerasimov said, adding that holding a closed creative a competition for the project, as well as full funding for its manufacture and installation will be carried out by the Armenian side. The monument is planned to be installed on a landscaped territory, located near the residential house 2 on Maly Peschanoy Lane. in the Sokol district. The cost of the project is 15 million rubles. Karo Halabyan (1897-1959) - Soviet architect, academician, was the chief architect of Moscow, participated in the development of the master plan for reconstruction capital, designed residential houses, cultural and educational, government buildings. He co-authored an architectural plan for the pavilion of the Moscow metro station Krasnopresnenskaya, as well as the building of the Central Academic Theater of the Russian Army. In addition, in the 1930s, Haslabyan created the Union of Architects of the USSR and was his first secretary. In the north of Moscow in the Sokol district, the name of the architect is the street.