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25.XII.1892 (6.I.1893)-10.VI.1971.
Born in Tbilisi. He graduated from the Petrograd Electrotechnical Institute with a degree in hydroelectric engineering (1916). doctor (1935). Professor (1922). Member of the Academy of Sciences of Soviet Armenia (1943). Scientific and pedagogical internship in 1916. Taught at the Electro-Technical Institute.
From 1917, he combined the work of the institute with work in the Ministry of Communications, where he was involved in electrifying the city of Petrograd using the hydropower resources of the Volkhov and Svir rivers. 1929 to 1942 professor, head of the chair of hydropower power equipment at the Electrotechnical Institute.
1924 organized a hydroelectric laboratory, which since 1931 has been included in the structure of the Hydrotechnical Scientific Research Institute. He occupied that laboratory until 1943. From 1943 to 1957 Director of the Hydropower Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Soviet Armenia, Secretary of Natural and Technical Sciences of the Academy’s Physico-Mathematical Department of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Professor of Hydropower Department at Yerevan Polytechnic Institute (head of the department from 1943 to 1947).
From 1957 to 1971 Professor-consultant of the Hydropower Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (in 1963, transformed into the Institute of Hydrotechnics and Water Issues of Armenia). Specialist in hydropower, hydrotechnical construction, hydraulic structures. From 1921 to 1924 studied the hydropower resources of the Caucasus and made reports about them in the state plan of the USSR. After returning to Armenia in 1943 he returned to those questions again.
He is the author of one of the first textbooks on hydropower and hydrotechnical structures. The multi-faceted studies of issues related to the selection of HPP capacity led him to the development of a new concept for those times.
This concept was widely used and was used to calculate the capacities of Volkhov, Svir, Dnepr and many other HPPs, the projects of which were still being developed at that time. A lot of attention was paid to the theoretical and practical development of the problem of regulating the power of hydroelectric power stations related to water flow regimes.
In the hydroelectric laboratory under his authority, various types of research were carried out on models of hydroturbines to justify the projects of Sevan, Chirchik and Nivyan cascades, Dzoraget, Baksan, Ajaris-Tskhenval, Verin-Svir, Zemoavgan and other hydropower plants.