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Avetik Isahakyan
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Avetik Sahaki Isahakyan was a prominent Armenian lyric poet, writer and public activist.
Hovhannes Tumanyan
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Hovhannes Tumanyan was an Armenian poet, writer, translator, and literary and public activist. He is the national poet of Armenia.
Yeghishe Charents
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Yeghishe Charents was an Armenian poet, writer and public activist. Charents' literary subject matter ranged from his experiences in the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and frequently...
Ivan Bagramyan
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Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan, also known as Hovhannes Khachaturi Baghramyan, was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union of Armenian origin.
Garegin Nzhdeh
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Garegin Ter-Harutyunyan, better known by his nom de guerre Garegin Nzhdeh, was an Armenian statesman, military commander and nationalist political thinker. As a member of the Armenian Revolutionary...
Paruyr Sevak
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Paruyr Sevak was an Armenian poet, translator and literary critic. He is considered one of the greatest Armenian poets of the 20th century.
Mesrop Mashtots
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Mesrop Mashtots was an Armenian linguist, composer, theologian, statesman, and hymnologist in the Sasanian Empire. He is venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox...
Andranik
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Andranik Ozanian, commonly known as General Andranik or simply Andranik;, was an Armenian military commander and statesman, the best known fedayi and a key figure of the Armenian national liberation...
Aghasi Khanjian
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Aghasi Ghevondi Khanjian was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from May 1930 to July 1936.
Komitas
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Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas, was an Ottoman-Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of the Armenian...
Raffi (novelist)
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Hakob Melik Hakobian, better known by his pen name Raffi, was an Armenian author and leading figure in 19th-century Armenian literature. He is considered one of the most influential and popular...
Hovhannes Shiraz
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Hovhannes Shiraz was an Armenian poet.
Stepan Shaumian
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Stepan Georgevich Shaumian was an Armenian Bolshevik revolutionary and politician active throughout the Caucasus. His role as a leader of the Russian Revolution in the Caucasus earned him the...
Vahan Terian
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Vahan Terian was an Armenian poet, lyricist and public activist. He is known for his sorrowful, romantic poems, the most famous of which are still read and sung in their musical versions.
Mikayel Nalbandian
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Mikayel Nalbandian was a Russian-Armenian writer, poet, political theorist and activist.
Alexander Miasnikian
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Alexander Fyodori Miasnikian or Myasnikov, also known by his revolutionary nom de guerre Martuni, was an Armenian Bolshevik revolutionary, military leader and politician. During the Russian Civil...
Sayat-Nova
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Sayat-Nova was an Armenian poet, musician and ashugh, who had compositions in a number of languages.
Ivan Isakov
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Ivan Stepanovich Isakov, born Hovhannes Ter-Isahakyan, was a Soviet Armenian military commander, Chief of Staff of the Soviet Navy, Deputy USSR Navy Minister, and held the rank of Admiral of the...
Suren Spandaryan
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Suren Spandari Spandaryan was an Armenian revolutionary in the Russian Empire, literary critic, publicist and one of the founders of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour...
Aram Khachaturian
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Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a Soviet Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Soviet composers.
Ստեփան Ալավերդյան
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Ստեփան Կարապետի Ալավերդյան, հայ հեղափոխական գործիչ, Հայաստանում խորհրդային իշխանության հաստատման աջակից։
Gregory of Narek
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Grigor Narekatsi was an Armenian mystical and lyrical poet, monk, and theologian. He is venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic Churches and was declared a Doctor of the Church by...
Perch Proshian
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Perch Proshian was an Armenian writer.
Arno Babajanian
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Arno Arutyunovich Babajanian was a Soviet and Armenian composer and pianist. He was made a People's Artist of the USSR in 1971
Nar-Dos
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Michael Hovhannisyan, known by the pen name Nar-Dos, was an Armenian writer.
Avet Avetisyan
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Avet Avetisyan was a Soviet Armenian film actor.
Kamo (Bolshevik)
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Simon Arshaki Ter-Petrosian, better known by his nom de guerre of Kamo, was an Old Bolshevik revolutionary and an early companion to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Nelson Stepanyan
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Nelson Georgievich Stepanyan was an Il-2 pilot and regimental commander in the Soviet Air Force who was twice awarded with the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union.
Khachatur Abovian
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Khachatur Abovian was an Armenian polymath, educator, scientist, philosopher, writer, poet and an advocate of modernization. He mysteriously vanished in 1848 and was eventually presumed dead. Reputed...
Թևան Ստեփանյան
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Թևան Ստեփանյան, (1892-1941) հայ պետական, ռազմական գործիչ, որը 1920-1921 թվականներին Ղարաբաղում գլխավորել է բոլշևիկների դեմ ապստամբությունը։
Alexander Griboyedov
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Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov, formerly romanized as Alexander Sergueevich Griboyedoff, was a Russian diplomat, playwright, poet, and composer. His one notable work was the 1823 verse comedy Woe...
Vazgen Sargsyan
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Vazgen Zaveni Sargsyan was an Armenian military commander and politician. He was the first Defence Minister of Armenia from 1991 to 1992 and then from 1995 to 1999. He served as Armenia's Prime...
Askanaz Mravyan
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Askanaz Harutyuni Mravyan was a Soviet Armenian statesman and political activist. He was one of the early leaders of Soviet Armenia.
Hunan Avetisyan
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Hunan Avetisyan was a Soviet Red Army senior sergeant from the 89th Rifle Division who sacrificed his life by covering the embrasure of a German machine gun pillbox with his body so that his fellow...
Hagop Baronian
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Hagop Baronian was an influential Ottoman Armenian writer, playwright, journalist, and educator in the 19th century.
Viktor Ambartsumian
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Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian was a Soviet Armenian astrophysicist and science administrator. One of the 20th century's top astronomers, he is widely regarded as the founder of theoretical...
Karen Demirchyan
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Karen Serobi Demirchyan was a Soviet and Armenian politician who served as President of the National Assembly in 1999 until his assassination. He had been also the First Secretary of the Communist...
Mkhitar Heratsi
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Mkhitar Heratsi was a 12th-century Armenian physician. He was born in Khoy. He was well versed in the Persian, Greek, and Arabic languages. Heratsi, is often being called the father of Armenian...
Raphael Patkanian
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Raphael Patkanian was one of the most popular Armenian poets.
Ghazaros Aghayan
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Ghazaros (Lazarus) Aghayan was an Armenian writer, educator, folklorist, historian, linguist and public figure.
Alexander Pushkin
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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian...
Gregory the Illuminator
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Gregory the Illuminator was the founder and first official head of the Armenian Apostolic Church. He converted Armenia from Zoroastrianism to Christianity in the early fourth century, making Armenia...
Sarkis Kasyan
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Sarkis Hovhannesi Kasyan or Kasian was an Armenian Soviet statesman, politician, publicist and journalist.
Movses Khorenatsi
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Movses Khorenatsi was a prominent Armenian historian from late antiquity and the author of the History of the Armenians.
Missak Manouchian
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Missak Manouchian was an Armenian poet and communist activist. A survivor of the 1915–16 Armenian genocide, he moved to France from an orphanage in Lebanon in 1925. He was active in communist...
Ivan Aivazovsky
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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was a Russian Armenian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, he was born into an Armenian...
Alex Manoogian
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Alexander Manoogian was an Armenian-American industrial engineer, businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist who spent most of his career in Detroit, Michigan. He was the founder of the Masco...
Georgi Atarbekov
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Georgiy Aleksandrovich Atarbekov was an Armenian Bolshevik and Soviet security police official.
Jivani
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Jivani, born Serob Stepani Levonian, was an Armenian ashugh (bard) and poet.
Anastas Mikoyan
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Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan was an Armenian Communist revolutionary, Old Bolshevik and Soviet statesman. Having been elected to the Central Committee in 1923, he was the only Soviet politician who...
Frunzik Mkrtchyan
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Mher Musheghi Mkrtchyan, better known by the name Frunzik, was an Armenian stage and film actor. Mkrtchyan is widely considered one of the greatest actors of the Soviet period among Armenians and the...