This Week in Armenian History
Birth of Krikor Zohrab (June 26, 1861)
Known as the “prince of the Armenian short novel,” Krikor Zohrab was also a skillful and highly rega...
Death of Michel Ter-Pogossian (June 19, 1996)
Armenian American medical physicist Michel Ter-Pogossian is considered one of the creators of positr...
Birth of Axel Bakunts (June 13, 1899)
Axel Bakunts was one of the most distinguished short story writers of the early period of Soviet Arm...
Death of Arshag Tchobanian (June 8, 1954)
Arshag Tchobanian became a sought-after name as an influential literary critic and political activis...
Birth of Perch Proshian (June 3, 1837)
Perch Proshian was one of the pioneering names in the Eastern Armenian novel of the nineteenth centu...
Birth of Vahakn Dadrian (May 26, 1926)
Vahakn Dadrian was one of the foremost experts of the Armenian Genocide in the 1980s-2000s. He w...
Birth of Natalia Melikian (May 20, 1906)
Natalia Melikian was a pioneering female scientist in Armenia. Her actual name was Natalia Ter Melik...
Birth of Tateos Agekian (May 12, 1913)
Tateos Agekian was a Soviet astrophysicist of Armenian descent and one of the pioneers of Russian an...
Birth of Ruben Hovsepian (May 5, 1939)
Ruben Hovsepian was one of the notable figures of the so-called “youth prose” in Armenia during the ...
Birth of Hovhannes Shiraz (April 27, 1915)
Poet Hovhannes Shiraz, one of the most popular names in Armenia and the Diaspora during Soviet times...