(Gevorg Tamanyan) (1910, St. Petersburg. - 1993, Yerevan).
The son of Camilla Matveevna Benoit (Edwards, 1885-1965) and the architect Alexander Tamanyan (1878-1936), a great grandson of Nicholas Leontyevich Benois.
Honored architect of Armenia. Honored Builder of Armenia. Laureate of the state prize of the Armenian SSR (1970).
Graduated from construction technical school and the technical faculty of the Yerevan University. Completed the construction, begun by his father in Yerevan: government House, Opera and ballet Theatre (completed in 1953), the building of the public library, the astrophysical Observatory of the University of veterinary and other institutions.
Author of numerous projects of residential and civil buildings in Armenia. Among them: the Big concert hall of Empiremoney, the building of the Yerevan Conservatory, the Union of writers of Armenia, the complex of buildings of the Yerevan physics Institute and the building of Kievyan street in Yerevan, clinical sanatorium, the building of the pump room and bath house in Jermuk, rural clubs. The author of the project of the monument to H. Abovyan in Yerevan (1950). Since the 1960s, with M. M. Soghomonyan was designing the new districts of Yerevan.
In his architectural oeuvre, his father continued to work in the neoclassical style and to combine the principles of modern and traditional Armenian architecture, largely thanks to which Yerevan has acquired its characteristic appearance.
Brother, the architect and restorer of medieval Armenian architecture Julius A. Tamanyan (1922-1993).
Among children – the architect Gayane G. Karamyan (1944-2004). The grandson of the architect Hayk Tamanyan (b. 1965).