Background
Baev was born in Astrakhan on September 12, 1875.
Baev was born in Astrakhan on September 12, 1875.
He studied in local gymnasium and when studying he also expressed love towards arts, music and painting. Bayev attended the Saint St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineering, from which he graduated in 1901.
From 1911-1918 he worked as the main architect of Baku. During this period he constructed more than 100 buildings in Baku, including the Great Theatre of the Mailov Brothers (modern days Azerbaijan State Opera Theatre, 1911), Sabunchi Railway Station, a residential sector in the former Armenikend area of Baku, and other buildings. In 1927 Bayev moved to Yerevan and from 1929 to 1930 worked as the head of ArmSelStroy (Armenian agency for rural construction), where he constructed about 200 buildings, among them Pioneer"s Palace of Yerevan, State Bank of Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ministry of Justice, Yerevan Mechanical factory, old hall of Sundukyan Theatre, "Ararat" trust buildings, et cetera
In 1945 he was awarded by the Honorary diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Bayev"s personal archive (1896-1949) is a part of Yerevan State Archive.
He was a member of Armenian Union of Architects (1942).