Gholamreza Nikpey

Nikpey was born in 1927 in Isfahan to Azizullah Nikpey. His father, also called Ezazolmalek, studied in the US and was governor of the province of Kermanshah during Reza Shah reign. Azizullah later became Minister of Post and Telegraph. Nikpey's maternal grandfather Zalolsoltan was from Qajar royal family and was the son of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar and at one point was set to succeed his father as king, however Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar became king instead of him. Gholamreza spent his childhood in Isfahan and Kermanshah and entered Tehran University to study law. He went to England to continue his studies and obtained his PhD in 1335 A.H. from the London School of Economics, and then returned to Iran.

After his return, he was employed by the Iranian National Oil Company. He went on to become VP to Prime Minister Hassan Ali Mansur. He was later the director of Kaakh Javanan. He became the mayor of Tehran in 1346 AH. After his tenure as mayor, he went on to become the representative of Isfahan in the Iranian senate. He was later arrested during political arrests later that year. During the Iranian revolution Nikpey was in jail in Tehran and was freed by the revolutionaries.

Nikpey made many improvements during his reign as mayor. Some of his actions include the construction of highways and parks, a comprehensive plan of Tehran, an urban tax, tax for non-rental buses and cars, building parking facilities, limiting the privacy of the capital zone, recycling waste into fertilizer, establishment of a soil mechanics laboratory, creating a development organization and renovation of Abbas Abad, changing the title of sweeper to civil service worker, establishing the development of public revenues, establishment of the Directorate General of Budget, improvement in buses, allocation of funds to build a building for children with disabilities, modification of the capital's mayoral department, allocation of funds for the construction of West Tehran flood, reconstruction of shops in the city that existed before the adoption of the comprehensive plan, building of Niavaran Park, creating an inspection agency, establishing DMV, redeveloping the slaughterhouse and morgue of Tehran, review of Urban Planning Department and urban areas, street parking in the southern area of Persepolis St. (Taleghani),development of public housing and apartment building for municipal staff, park construction and building artificial lake in the south near Azadi Tower, plans to establish public housing, establishing three-bed nursing homes for the elderly in Kahrizak.

Seoul visit

Road post that says "Tehran Road" both in Korean hangul (테헤란로) and Persian (خیابان تهران).

Gholamreza Nikpey travelled to Seoul on 27 June 1977.[2] Seoul Metropolitan Government suggested that the city of Seoul and Tehran for exchanging the names of streets on the occasion of the visit to Korea of Gholamreza Nikpay, Mayor of Tehran. The following year, Samneungno street was renamed Teheran, which then ran through a relatively underdeveloped area recently annexed to Seoul. Today, Teheran-ro is one of Seoul's busiest streets, the location of major finance, tech, and cultural institutions.[3] Likewise, there is a Seoul Street in Tehran.

• Boroumand Foundation file on Mr. Nikpay