Nikolai Markov

Nikolai Lvovich Markov (, , 9 January 1883 – 19 November 1957) was a Russian architect working in Iran.

Biography Nikolai Markov was born in Tiflis and was educated at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg and at the Persian Department of the Oriental Faculty of Saint Petersburg University.

Prior to his decisive settling in Iran, Markov was a high-ranking member of the Imperial Russian army, and fought in the Caucasus against the Bolsheviks under Colonel Nikolai Baratov, the commander of the Russian forces in Iran and to whose staff he was attached, and had served with the fanatically anti-Bolshevik Major-General Lazar Bicherakhov, another one of Baratov's senior officers. A supporter of the White movement, in the years around and after the Bolshevik Revolution he served as a captain in the Persian Cossack Brigade under General Vsevolod Starosselsky. Amongst his works are the Alborz High School, the Post Office and Telecommunications Center of Tehran, factories, and a mosque. He was buried at the Doulab Cemetery.

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