Nikolai Markov (architect)

Nikolai Lvovich Markov (Russian: Николай Львович Марков, Persian: نیکولای مارکف‎‎), born in Tbilisi in 1882 and died in 1957, was an Iranian architect of Russian descent.

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 whoms staff he was attached, and had served with the fanatically anti-Bolshevik Major-General Lazar Bicherakov, one of Baratov's senior officers as well. A staunch supporter of the White movement, in the years around and after the Bolshevik Revolution, he had served as a captain in the Persian Cossack Brigade under General Vsevolod Starosselsky as well. Nikolai Markov later worked for the Municipality of Tehran where he built many buildings. ·  ·  · , Alborz High School, the Post Office and Telecommunications of Tehran, factories and even a mosque. He was buried at the Doulab Cemetery.