Martiros Sarukhanyan (Martik Levonyan, 1873,

Shusha / hy, Շուշի , settlement_type = City , image_skyline = ShushaCollection2021.jpg , image_caption = Landmarks of Shusha, from top left:Ghazanchetsots Cathedral • Yukhari Govha ...

- 1895, Garahisar Mountain,

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) was an Armenian Fedayee and political activist. After graduating from the College in Baku, Sarukhanyan continued his studies at the

Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University) (russian: Санкт-Петербургский Технологический Институт (Технический Университет)) was founded in 1828. It is o ...

. He then studied in

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, where he supported the

Social-Democrat Hunchakian Party The Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (SDHP) ( hy, Սոցիալ Դեմոկրատ Հնչակյան Կուսակցություն; ՍԴՀԿ, translit=Sots’ial Demokrat Hnch’akyan Kusakts’ut’yun), is the oldest continuously-operating Armenian ...

's Central Committee. As a Hunchakian leader in 1894, he moved to

and started working in

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. Sarukhanyan became the Hunchakian leader of Van in 1895. He joined

Dashnak The Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( hy, Հայ Յեղափոխական Դաշնակցութիւն, ՀՅԴ ( classical spelling), abbr. ARF or ARF-D) also known as Dashnaktsutyun (collectively referred to as Dashnaks for short), is an Armenian ...

and helped leaders Peto and Armenakan Mkrtich Avetisyan organize the self-defense effort at Van.
Sarukhanyan was killed in the

Şebinkarahisar Şebinkarahisar is a town in and the administrative seat for Şebinkarahisar District, Giresun Province in the Black Sea region of northeastern Turkey. Name The 6th century Byzantine historian Procopius writes that the Roman general Pompey captu ...

mountains in 1895 by Turkish troops.
The Armenian writers

Avetis Nazarbekian Avetis Vardan Nazarbekian ( hy, Ավետիս Վարդանի Նազարբեկյան, 1866, Tabriz – 1939, Moscow), also known as ''Nazarbek'' or ''Lerents'', was an Armenian poet, journalist, political activist and revolutionary, one of the foun ...

and Shushanik Kurghinian both dedicated poems to his memory.

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Outstanding people of Karabagh

Bibliography

*Martyrs on Bloody Path, by Dr Yeghia Jerejian, Beirut, 1989, p. 86-87 *Армянский вопрос: Энциклопедия, p. Константин Суренович Худавердян, 1991 - Страница 223 *Знаменитые арцахцы: Арцах (Карабах), Утик, Том 1 - Аршак Наапетович Вирабян - Апполон, 1992, p. 32 {{DEFAULTSORT:Sarukhanyan, Martiros 1873 births 1895 deaths Armenian politicians Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology alumni People from the Russian Empire