On October 4, 2023, the stationary exhibition “Belarusian Architecture in Faces” dedicated to three Belarusian architects – A. B. Markarian, Yu.V. Shpit, I.I. Bovt began its work in the Belarusian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation

On October 4, 2023, on the eve of the celebration of the Archivist’s Day, a stationary exhibition “Belarusian Architecture in Faces” dedicated to three Belarusian architects – A. B. Markarian began its work in the Belarusian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation, Yu.V. Shpitu, I.I. Bovtu.

Arshaluis Balabekovich Markarian was born on March 23, 1915 in the village of Ortekende in Armenia in the family of Balabek Hristoforovich Markarian and Anna Karpovna Markarian. In 1940, A.B. Markarian graduated from evening school in the city of Essentuki and entered the Moscow Architectural Institute. After graduation, he received a referral to the city of Minsk.

Since 1946, Arshaluys Balabekovich participated in the restoration and construction of post-war Belarus. He worked as a district architect of the Leninsky and Frunzensky districts of Minsk, chief architect of the city of Grodno, chief architect of the project at the institute “Minskproekt”.

A.B. Markarian designed residential, public and administrative buildings, carried out projects of planning and landscaping of districts of the Belarusian capital. The architect participated in the development of the red lines of the general plan of the city of Minsk. According to his projects, a polyclinic was built in Minsk on Ulyanovsk Street, a 28-apartment residential building of an automobile plant and a 32-apartment residential building of a concrete plant, a complex of residential buildings of a heating equipment plant, a reconstruction-superstructure of a dormitory of a medical institute, etc. The architect has done a lot of creative work on drawing up design proposals for the ideal city of the future – the “star city”.

Yuri Vasilyevich Shpit was born on November 9, 1930 in Zaporozhye, Ukrainian SSR.

In 1954, after graduating from the architectural faculty of the Kiev Institute of Civil Engineering, the young specialist was sent to Belarus to the workshop of “Belgosproekt” and since that time all his creative activity as an architect is connected with Belarus. Over the years of his work at this institute, he went from a senior architect to the head of an architectural design workshop

Under the leadership of Yu.V.Shpit and his direct participation, the design and construction of experimental large-panel residential buildings of improved layout was carried out. A series of standard projects was developed, mastered by all the house-building plants of the republic, large residential complexes were built from industrial structures according to individual projects in Minsk and Novopolotsk. The architect was the head of the creative team of designers for the development of the city of Novopolotsk. For the creation of microdistricts and ensembles of public centers in this city, Yuri Vasilyevich, as part of a group of designers and builders, was awarded the title of laureate of the State Prize of the BSSR in 1984. He is the author of the projects of the international youth complex “Yunost”, the cinema “Partizan”, the sanatorium “Belarus” in the Crimea, a number of administrative buildings.

Ivan Ivanovich Bovt was born on July 20, 1932 in Minsk in the family of an employee.

In 1948, he graduated from the 7th grade of secondary school No. 33 and entered the Minsk Architectural and Construction College. After graduating from college in 1952 with a degree in architecture, I.I. Bovt was sent to work at the design institute “Belpromproekt”. Here he worked until 2001 in various positions, and since 1968 – the chief architect of the Institute.

As a direct participant and leader, the architect developed projects of large industrial complexes, enterprises, industrial buildings: a refrigerator factory and a watch factory in Minsk, a carpet factory and a hosiery factory in Brest, a Belarusian automobile plant in Zhodino, a color printing factory, a building of the design institute “Belniigiproselstroy”, a Research institute of Architecture and Construction, SKB-12 and ECB furniture in Minsk.

At the end of the 90s of the twentieth century, the architect headed the team of authors for the design and construction of the Ice Palace on the street.Prytytsky in Minsk. Ice palaces were designed and built in other cities of Belarus: Brest, Vitebsk, Gomel.

The exposition can be found in the Belarusian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation, located at the address: Minsk, St. Cyril and Methodius str., 4.

Arshaluys Balabekovich Markaryan

Yuri Vasilievich Shpit

Ivan Ivanovich Bovt

Sketch design of the medical institute dormitory on the corner of Avenue. Stalin (Independence Ave.) and st. B. Khmelnitsky in Minsk. A.B. Markarian. 1955

Draft design of the Church of St. Apostle Andrew the First-Called on the street. Rokossovsky and st. Malinin in Minsk. Yu.V. Spit. [1995-1996]

Draft design of the Minsk Refrigerator Plant. I.I. Bovt. 1972