Armen Kazaryan
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Armen Kazaryan (Russian: Армен Юрьевич Казарян; Armenian: Արմեն Ղազարյան; born June 15, 1963)[1] is an Armenian and Russian art historian who specializes in medieval Armenian, Georgian and Byzantine architecture.[2]
Born in Yerevan, Armenia, he resides in Moscow. He is a graduate of the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute.[1] He completed his postgraduate studies at the Russian State Institute of Art Studies under Alexei Komech.[3][1] His dissertation concerned 7th century Caucasian architecture.[4] He was deputy director of the Research Institute of the Theory and History of Architecture and Town Planning of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences.[5][6] He has published widely on medieval Armenian architecture. His four-volume study Church Architecture of the Seventh Century in Transcaucasian Countries: Formation and Development of the Tradition in Russian (2012–13) was honored with the Europa Nostra Award (2014). He has extensively studied the architecture of Ani and served as a consultant in its conservation projects.[7]