20
Feb
Birth of Mikhail Vartanov (February 21, 1937)
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Mikhail Vartanov is considered an important cinematographer and documentarian of his generation note...
This Week in Armenian History
13
Feb
Birth of Davit Hovhannes (February 17, 1945)
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Davit Hovhannes (Hovhannisian) was born on February 17, 1945, in Yerevan. He was the son of poet Hra...
06
Feb
Death of Grigor Khalatiants (February 8, 1912)
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Grigor Khalatiants, historian and philologist, was an important name in Armenian Studies in the late...
30
Jan
Death of Hovhannes Mirza-Vanandetsi (February 3, 1841)
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Hovhannes Mirza-Vanandetsi was one of the exponents of Armenian classicism in the nineteenth century...
23
Jan
Birth of Mher Abeghian (January 26, 1909)
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Mher Abeghian was a well-known in Soviet Armenian painting in the 1940s-1980s period.
He was born...
16
Jan
Birth of Manya Ghazaryan (January 20, 1924)
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Manya Ghazaryan, a prolific art historian, was born on January 20, 1924, in Tbilisi (Georgia). She g...
09
Jan
Birth of Hrach Zartarian (January 15, 1897)
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Hrach Zartarian was one of the important yet lesser-known names of French Armenian literature in the...
02
Jan
Birth of Charles Dowsett (January 2, 1924)
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Charles Dowsett was the first person to hold a position in Armenian studies at a British university....
26
Dec
Death of Osip Mandelstam (December 27, 1938)
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Osip Mandelstam, one of the foremost Russian poets of the early twentieth century, was also celebrat...
12
Dec
Birth of Hovhannes Badalian (December 15, 1924)
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December 15 marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Hovhannes Badalian, one of the most reco...