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...
This Week in Armenian History
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...
05
Dec
Death of Abraham Alikhanian (December 8, 1970)
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Abraham Alikhanian is widely recognized as one of the leading Soviet physicists who specialized in p...
27
Nov
Death of Ariel Agemian (November 28, 1963)
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Ariel (Haroutiun) Agemian was born in Brusa, Turkey, in 1904. He was a survivor of the Armenian Geno...