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    Architecture Museum director David Sarkisyan dies
    08.01.2010 12:39 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Director of Shchusev State Museum of Architecture in
    Moscow, David Sarkisyan died at 62 in a Munich hospital after a
    lingering illness.

    David Sarkisyan campaigned against the destruction of dozens of Moscow
    building, specifically the Central House of Artists.

    David Sarkisyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1947. He was a man of
    many talents, first working as a biologist and developing a drug to
    treat Alzheimer's, then in the 1980s turning his hand to film making
    as a script writer and director of more than 20 documentaries. He
    assumed the post of director of Shchusev State Museum of Architecture
    in 2000. Recognizing that the walls of the grand old building on
    Vozdvizhenka were the perfect backdrop for architectural exhibitions,
    he transformed the obscure venue into an excellent exhibition center.
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