Background
YEGIAZAROV, Ivan was born in 1893 in Tiflis.
YEGIAZAROV, Ivan was born in 1893 in Tiflis.
1916 graduated Petrograd Electrotechn. Institute.
1917-1925 in charge of planning for Svir Hydroelectr. Power Plants; 1921-1923 assigned by USSR State Planning Committee to study potential Caucasian hydropower resources. 1924 set up hydroelectric laboratory, Leningrad Electrotechn.
Institute (in 1931 the laboratory became a research instituts). 1933-1941 Chairman, Commission for the Exchange of Experience in Hydrotechn. Experimentation; 1935 USSR delegation at 16th International Shipping Congress, Brussels.
1951 directed research on wave phenomena of Kuybyshev Hydropower Complex. Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1946 convocation. Since 1920 on the State Commission for the Electrification of Russia.
1921-1924 USSR State Planning Committee consultant. 1922-1935 instructor and 1935-1944 Professor, Leningrad Electrotechn. Institute; 1943-1953 head of a chair then Professor, Yerevan Polytechn.
Institute; 1944-1957 simultaneously Director, Hydropower Institute, Armenian Academy of Sciences. Until 1960, Academy Secretary,Department of Physico-Mathematical Science, and Presidium member, Armenian Academy of Sciences.