Theatre :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Theatre

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Gandzak / Gandzak

Historical Introduction
1908 y․

In 1908 Gandzak’s “...Armenian community decided to erect a three-floor building in a plot of land belonging to the church. Its upper storey was intended to house an Armenian theatre: the estimate of expenditures totaled 63,000 rubles.”

“Ararat,” 1908, p. 1046.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 37.

1910 y․

The project that had been worked out by engineer M. P. Ohanjanian was approved on 18 March 1910.

For details about that building see National Archives of Armenia, fund Պ461, list 1, file 28, pp. 1-4, 15-17; file 34, pp. 1-12.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 37.

1914 y․

As stated by a record of 1914, “...a three-floor building is being erected now. The stands and their basements have already been completed, but the theatre hall is still under construction. So far 7,828 rubles have been spent on it, with another 55,000 still necessary. The church has allocated 25,000 rubles so that the trustees will have to borrow only 30,000, for which the Parish Assembly has decided to pawn the church bath-house with its yard, and the club with its five shops, namely the church estates located in Uchilishchni and Javjavadze Streets...”

National Archives of Armenia, fund Պ56, list 18, file 918, p. 6.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 37.

1916 y․

Despite the aforementioned, however, by 1916 the work had not been completed yet.