People on Armenia's street signs
Avetik Isahakyan
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Avetik Sahaki Isahakyan was an 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's 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, born Hovhannes Baghramyan, was a Soviet military commander of Armenian origin who held the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. As commander of the 1st Baltic Front,...
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 revolutionary. As a member of the Armenian Revolutionary...
Paruyr Sevak
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Paruyr Sevak was an Armenian poet, translator and literary critic. A major figure in Soviet Armenia during the Khrushchev Thaw, Sevak and his works remain widely popular in Armenia today. He is...
Mesrop Mashtots
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Mesrop Mashtots was an Armenian linguist, composer, theologian, statesman, and hymnologist. He is venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Andranik
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Andranik Ozanian, commonly known as General Andranik or simply Andranik, was an Armenian military commander and statesman, widely regarded as the preeminent fedayi and a seminal figure of the...
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 a prominent Armenian poet, lyricist, public and political figure.
Mikayel Nalbandian
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Mikayel Nalbandian was a Russian Armenian writer, poet, political theorist and revolutionary.
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 statesman. 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 Proshyan was an Armenian writer and educator.
Arno Babajanian
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Arno Harutyuni 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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Mikayel Hovhannisian, known by the pen name Nar-Dos, was an Armenian writer.
Avet Avetisyan
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Avet Markosi 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 Armenian 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, հայ պետական, ռազմական գործիչ, որը 1920-1921 թվականներին Ղարաբաղում գլխավորել է բոլշևիկների դեմ ապստամբությունը։
Alexander Griboyedov
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Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov was a Russian diplomat, playwright, poet, and composer. His one notable work is the 1823 verse comedy Woe from Wit. He was Russia's ambassador to Qajar Persia, where...
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 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 soldiers...
Hagop Baronian
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Hagop Baronian was an influential Ottoman Armenian writer, playwright, journalist, and educator in the 19th century. His is considered the first satirist in modern Armenian literature.
Viktor Ambartsumian
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Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian was a Soviet and Armenian astrophysicist and science administrator. One of the 20th century's leading 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 he was killed in the Armenian parliament shooting. He had been also the...
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, often considered the father of Armenian medicine,...
Raphael Patkanian
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Raphael Patkanian, also known by the penname Gamar Katipa, was a nineteenth-century Russian Armenian writer and educator. He was born into a noted family of Armenian intellectuals in...
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 1915–1916 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 Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, he was born to Armenian parents in the...
Alex Manoogian
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Alexander Manoogian was an Armenian-American industrial engineer, businessman, and philanthropist who spent most of his career in Detroit, Michigan. He was the founder of the Masco Corporation, which...
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 a Soviet statesman, diplomat, and Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union. As a...
Frunzik Mkrtchyan
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Mher Musheghi Mkrtchyan, better known by the name Frunzik, a diminutive of his official given name Frunze, in honor of Mikhail Frunze, was an Armenian stage and film actor. Mkrtchyan is widely...