This is a list of Armenians from Nagorno Karabakh.

Arts

* André, pop singer, first artist to represent Armenia in the

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in 2006 *

Don Askarian Don Askarian ( hy, Դոն Ասկարյան; born Makedon Hovsepi Askarian ( hy, Մակեդոն Հովսեփի Ասկարյան) on 10 July 1949 in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, USSR – died 6 October 2018 in Berlin, Germany) was ...

, filmmaker, recipient of the Golden Camera Award for Life Achievement at Int. ART Film Festival, Slovakia *

Zori Balayan Zori (), also rendered as zōri ( ja, , ), are thonged Japanese sandals made of rice straw, cloth, lacquered wood, leather, rubber, or—most commonly and informally—synthetic materials. They are a slip-on descendant of the tied-on sandal. ...

, novelist, journalist, public activist * Vladimir Arzumanyan, child singer, winner of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010

Scientists and scholars

Armen Abaghian Armen Artavazdi Abaghian ( hy, Արմեն Աբաղյան; January 1, 1933 in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh – November 18, 2005 in Moscow, Russia) was a Russian- Armenian specialist on nuclear power, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor (1 ...

, atomic energy specialist, Doctor of Technical Sciences, member of Russian Academy of Sciences *

Artashes Arakelian Artashes Arakelian (1909 – November 10, 1993) was an economist, member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences (1960). Artashes chaired the Regional Planning Division of NKAR, he also worked as a researcher at Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ...

(1909–1993), economist, the head of the Economy Institute of Armenian Science Academy * Arakel Babakhanian (1860–1932), historian, publicist, writer, critic * Ivan Knuniants (1906–1990), Soviet chemist * Khoren Sargsian (1891–1970), writer, critic, the director of the Literature Institute of Armenian Academy of Sciences (1943–1947) * Armen Takhtajian (1910–2009), botanist * Ashot Hovhannisian (1887–1972), Marxist historian and Communist official * Andronik Iosifyan (1905–1993), Soviet engineer

Writers and artists

* Stepan Aghajanian (1863–1940), artist, distinguished as a portrait artist * Mikael Arutchian (1897–1961), theatrical painter and designer * Hakob Gyurjian (1881–1948), sculptor * Gevork Kotiantz (1906–1996), painter *

Alexander Melik-Pashaev Alexander Shamil'evich Melik-Pashayev (russian: Александр Шамильевич Мелик-Пашаев; hy, Ալեքսանդր Մելիք-Փաշայան, Alek’sandr Melik’-P’ashayan; 23 October 1905, in Tbilisi – 18 June 1964), P ...

(1905–1964), conductor, born in Tiflis in a family from Shushi * Muratsan (1854–1908), writer, one of the most famous figures in Armenian literature * Arsen Terteryan (1882–1953), literary critic *

Vagharsh Vagharshian Vagharsh Bogdani Vagharshian (14 February 1894 – 6 May 1959) was a Soviet and Armenian actor, director, playwright and public figure. People's Artist of the USSR (1954). Vagharshian graduated from a diocese school in Shushi and then worked wit ...

(1894–1959), director, playwright, actor, theater and public figure

Politics and statesmen

Hambardzum Arakelian Hambardzum Arakelian ( hy, Համբարձում Առաքելյան ''Shahriar'' ( hy, Շահրիար), 1865, Shusha, Russian Empire - 1918, Tbilisi) was an Armenian journalist, writer and public activist, the founder of The Relief Committee for Arm ...

(Shakhriar) (1855–1918), public and political figure *

Alexander Atabekian Alexander Movsesi Atabekian ( hy, Ալեքսանդր Մովսեսի Աթաբեկյան; 2 February 1868 – 4 December 1933) was a prominent Armenian anarchist, author and publisher of anarchist literature in Russian. Biography Alexander Movse ...

(1868–1933), political figure, anarchist *

Artashes Babalian Artashes Babalian ( hy, Արտաշես Ադամի Բաբալյան; November 17, 1886 – August 1, 1959) was an Armenian doctor, politician and public figure who served as the minster of social protection in the government of the First Republic ...

(1887–1959), doctor, politician *

Alexander Bekzadyan Alexander Harutyuni Bekzadyan ( hy, Ալեքսանդր Հարությունի Բեկզադյան; 1879 August 1, 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet statesman of Armenian descent. After serving as Soviet ambassador to Norway and Hungary ...

(1879–1938), Soviet statesman, Soviet ambassador in Norway and Hungary *

Yeghishe Ishkhanian Yeghishe Ishkhanian ( hy, Եղիշե Իշխանյանը; January 1, 1886, Shusha – April 28, 1975) was a prominent Armenian politician and statesman, who held high offices in the Nagorno-Karabakh in the beginning of the 20th century. From July 2 ...

(1886–1975), political figure *

Aram Manukian Aram Manukian, reformed spelling: Արամ Մանուկյան, and he is also referred to as simply Aram. (19 March 187929 January 1919), was an Armenian revolutionary, statesman, and a leading member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation ...

(1879–1919), statesman, the founder of the

First Republic of Armenia The First Republic of Armenia, officially known at the time of its existence as the Republic of Armenia ( hy, Հայաստանի Հանրապետութիւն), was the first modern Armenian state since the loss of Armenian statehood in the Middle ...

* Arkadi Ghukasyan, politician, 2nd president of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic *

Bako Sahakyan Bako Sahaki Sahakyan ( hy, Բակո Սահակի Սահակյան; born 30 August 1960) is an Artsakhi politician who served as the third president of the ''de facto''-independent Republic of Artsakh from 2007 to 2020. He is the longest-serving p ...

, 3rd president of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic * Arayik Harutyunyan, Prime Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (2007-2017), current President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic * Robert Kocharyan, 2nd president of Armenia * Serzh Sargsyan, 3rd president of Armenia *

Sahak Ter-Gabrielyan Sahak Mirzayi Ter-Gabrielyan ( hy, Սահակ Միրզայի Տեր-Գաբրիելյան; 1886 – 19 August 1937) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet Armenian statesman. Born in Shushi to the family of a tailor, he became a member of the ...

(1886–1937), Soviet statesman and politician * Tuman Tumian (1879–1906), political activist * Karen Karapetyan, Prime Minister of Armenia (2016-2018)

Military figures

* Samvel Babayan (b. 1965), military commander * Nikol Duman (1867–1914), fedayee * Sergei Khudyakov (1906–1950), Soviet Marshal of the Air Force during World War II * Ivan Lazarev (1820–1879), prince, officer of the Russian army, lieutenant general * Valerian Madatov (1782–1829), Russian prince and lieutenant-general * Nelson Stepanyan (1913–1944), pilot, lieutenant colonel, Hero of the Soviet Union

Religious figures

* Karekin I (Cilicia), Catholicos of Cilicia from 1943 to 1952. * Pargev Martirosyan, Primate of the Diocese of Artsakh since 1989

References

Great Soviet EncyclopediaFamous Shoushians
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