* 07.01.1939 Tbilisi, Georgia

Architect

Zurab Jalaghania studied from 1957 to 1963 at the Faculty of Architecture of the Georgian Polytechnic Institute. While still a student, in 1962, he started working with Giorgi Chakhava in the Civil and Industrial Buildings Department of the “SoyuzDorProekti“ Tbilisi Office, where he remained until the end of his professional career.

Zurab Jalaghania is a Honoured Architect of Georgia an a laureate of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union for Ministry of Road Construction (1983).

Photos: Zurab Jalagania personal Archive, Levan Kalandarishvili

Main Projects

– Yalta Bus Station, Crimea, Ukraine. 1964 (Giorgi Chakhava, Otar Nakhutsrishvili, Dodo Sekhniashvili, Zurab Jalaghania. Engineer: Nikolai Linevich)

– Ministry of Road Construction, Tbilisi 1975 (Giorgi Chakhava, Zurab Jalaghania. Civil Engineers: Teimuraz Tkhilava, Alexander Kimberg.) 

– Projects of pavilions and other buildings along the roads of Georgia, 1972-1985. Cafe “Fantasy” Batumi (1980); “Diorama” Gudauri, Georgian Military Road (1983)