Yuri Tumanyan

Architect · Юрий Туманян

3 works · Chișinău

Yuri Tumanyan designed the former Supreme Soviet of the MSSR, now the Presidential Palace, in 1980–85 with Arkady Zaltsman and Viktor Yavorsky. The City Gates on the airport road were his idea, designed by his wife and colleague Yulia Skvortsova.

The archive also credits him with the House of Nationalities (1982) and the Licurici Puppet Theater (1986).

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House of Nationalities - Chisinau

Yuri Tumanyan, Viktor Yavorsky

Chișinău, Moldova·1982

Republican Puppet Theatre Licurici ("Fireflies”)

Yuri Tumanyan, Oleg Vronsky, G. N. Spitsyn

Chișinău, Moldova·1986

Presidential Palace of Moldova (former Presidium of the MSSR Supreme Soviet)

Yuri Tumanyan, Arkady Zaltsman, Viktor Yavorsky

Chișinău, Moldova·1987

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