Argam Ararati Aivazian (sometimes written as Ayvazyan) ( hy, Արգամ Արարատի Այվազյան; born 20 July 1947) is an
Armenian
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historian, journalist and researcher. Born in the village of
Arinj in the
Nakhichevan ASSR, he is particularly known for his books and monographs about the Armenian culture and history of that region, and has written books about the towns of
Hin Jugha (Julfa) and
Agulis, as well as more than 200 other works, mostly in Armenian.
Biography
Argam Aivazian was born in 1947 the village of
Arinj (Ayrınc) in the
Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
The Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as Nakhichevan ASSR was an autonomous republic within the Azerbaijan SSR, itself a republic within the Soviet Union. It was formed on 16 March 1921 and became a part of the Az ...
of the
Azerbaijan SSR (now located in the
Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of
Azerbaijan
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). He went to grade school in his home village. He graduated from the
Armenian State Pedagogical University
Khachatur Abovian Armenian State Pedagogical University (ASPU) ( hy, Խաչատուր Աբովյանի անվան հայկական պետական մանկավարժական համալսարան, ՀՊՄՀ), is a state university and higher educa ...
in 1984.
Aivazian has worked at the Monument Protection Department of the
Armenian SSR and the Art Institute of
Armenian Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (NAS RA) ( hy, Հայաստանի Հանրապետության գիտությունների ազգային ակադեմիա, ՀՀ ԳԱԱ, ''Hayastani Hanrapetut’yan gitut’yunneri az ...
. His photographic archive contains over 10000 negatives. It is one of the largest documentary collections of historical Armenian architecture in the world.
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From 1992 to 2000 he was a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (NAS RA) ( hy, Հայաստանի Հանրապետության գիտությունների ազգային ակադեմիա, ՀՀ ԳԱԱ, ''Hayastani Hanrapetut’yan gitut’yunneri az ...
.
Awards
* Honored Cultural Worker of Armenia (2009)[Argam Ayvazyan, Boghossian Prize](_blank)
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* RA Presidential Award (2011)
Selected works
*''The Historical Monuments of Nakhichevan''. Translated into English by Krikor H. Maksoudian. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990, 152 p., .
*''The khachkars of Nakhijevan ''. Published in English and Armenian. Yerevan, 1996.
*''The Symphony of the Destroyed Jugha Khatchkars''. Published in English, Russian, and Armenian. Yerevan, 2007.
*''Nakhijevan: Map of Monuments''. Yerevan, 2007.
*''Djugha''. In English and Russian. Yerevan: Hayastan Publishing, 1990.
* "The Rock-Carvings of Navasar." ''Lraber Hasarakakan Gituyunneri'', № 2, 1981.
* ''Ջուղա'' (''Jugha''). Yerevan: Sovetakan Grogh, 1984.
* ''Monumental Memorials and Reliefs of Nakhijevan''. Yerevan, 1987.
* ''The Art of Wall Painting in Nakhijevan''. Yerevan, 1998.
* ''Նախիջեւանի վիմագրական ժառանգութիւնը'' (''The Lithographic Inheritance of Nakhidjevan''). Two volumes. Antelias, 2005.
References
External links
Argam Aivazian - Digital Library of Armenian LiteratureHistoric Armenian monuments were obliterated. Some call it ‘cultural genocide’
Los Angeles Times
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, 2019
1947 births
Living people
20th-century Armenian historians
People from Nakhchivan
21st-century Armenian historians
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