Aksel Tatevosovich Vartanyan (russian: Аксель Татевосович Вартанян; born January 8, 1938) is a Soviet and Russian journalist, sports historian and native of
Tbilisi
Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million p ...
.
Vartanyan graduated from the Historical-Philological Department of Tbilisi Pedagogical Institute. Since 1962 he has worked full-time as a school teacher.
Vartanyan is famous as journalist for the ''
Football'' weekly and the newspaper ''
Sport Express
''Sport-Express'' (russian: Спорт-Экспресс) is a Russian daily sports newspaper founded by Vladimir Kuchmiy. Printed in 31 cities of Russia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and the United States, it is the biggest-selling spor ...
'', researcher of archives and other written stock-piles that accumulated since the inception of domestic club football.
Bibliography
* ''History of USSR Championships 1936-1979'' "Futbol" Moscow 1994-98
* ''Eduard Streltsov - criminal or victim?'' "Terra-sport", Moscow 2001
Book "Eduard Streltsov - criminal or victim?"
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* ''Secret Archive'' "Sport-Express" (2001)
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Under the Red Banner of Sportintern
' (October 1, 2001)
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Eastern novel
' (October 15, 2001)
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Not so scary is demon
' (October 22, 2001)
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Difficult road to "Double-V"
' (October 29, 2001)
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Women for the defenders of republic
' (November 5, 2001)
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To Caesar - the Cesarean, to Kosarev - the Kosarean
' (November 12, 2001)
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Football, war and diplomacy
' (December 10, 2001)
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How we entered FIFA
' (December 17, 2001)
* ''Annals'' "Sport-Express" (2003-2017)
See also
* Soviet Top League
The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991.
The professional top level ...
References
External links
President of Armenia was petitioned to help the Armenian encyclopedia
Journalists from Tbilisi
1938 births
Russian male journalists
20th-century Russian historians
Soviet sports journalists
Russian sports journalists
Russian people of Armenian descent
Living people
20th-century Russian male writers
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