Natalia Artemi Martirosyan was born on in
Tbilisi, then part of
Georgia in the
Russian Empire. She graduated from the
St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute in 1915 and trained as an
irrigation engineer. She was elected to the Central Executive Committee of the
Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic in 1931 and 1935. Martirosyan participated in the design and construction of the from 1922 until 1925. In 1925, she became the head of the People's Commissariat for Water Management of the
Armenian SSR, and she later worked at the from 1940 until 1960. In these roles, she designed the , the
Lake Akna pumping station and irrigation network, the
Lake Arpi reservoir, and several other projects. For her work, Martirosyan was awarded the
Order of Lenin and the
Order of the Red Banner of Labour, and was named an in 1957. Martirosyan died in
Yerevan on 14 June 1960. == References ==