15 Facts About Nasreddin Murat-Khan

Nasreddin Murat-Khan was a Russian-born Pakistani architect and civil engineer.

Nasreddin Murat-Khan is renowned for designing the iconic national monument, the Minar-e-Pakistan.

Nasreddin Murat-Khan was the architect of the Gaddafi Stadium and several other notable buildings and structures.

Nasreddin Murat-Khan was keen to free the Muslim Caucasus region from Soviet control.

Nasreddin Murat-Khan stayed as a refugee in one of the camps established by the UNRRA in Berlin, later moving to Mittenwald where he married Hamida Akmut, a Turkish refugee, in 1946.

Nasreddin Murat-Khan died of a heart attack on 15 October 1970.

In 1930, Nasreddin Murat-Khan held a variety of posts in Dagestan and in Leningrad.

Nasreddin Murat-Khan was arrested during the "Engineers' Purges" undertaken by Stalin, but was re-instated in February 1940 as Chief Engineer and Chief Architect of the Pyatigorsk branch of the North Caucasian Project Trust.

Nasreddin Murat-Khan later served as Chief Engineer and Director of the North Caucasian Project Trust in Woroschilowsk, Ukraine, till August 1942.

Nasreddin Murat-Khan planned and designed many buildings of the Soviet Union, which includes a Lenin Memorial.

Nasreddin Murat-Khan was very keen on the supervision of the construction and the design.

Nasreddin Murat-Khan frequently visited the site to inspect building material, construction quality.

Nasreddin Murat-Khan did not take his prescribed fee of Rs.

Nasreddin Murat-Khan was of the view that each local body should have a chief architect of its own.

Nasreddin Murat-Khan was a proponent of Islamic architecture, advocating the retention of a national character in Pakistani architecture.