Suren Spandari Spandaryan ( hy, Սուրեն Սպանդարի Սպանդարյան; 1882 in

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– 24 September 1916 in

Krasnoyarsk Krasnoyarsk ( ; rus, Красноя́рск, a=Ru-Красноярск2.ogg, p=krəsnɐˈjarsk) (in semantic translation - Red Ravine City) is the largest city and administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is situated along the Yeni ...

) was an

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Ox ...

n revolutionary in the Russian Empire, literatary critic, publicist and one of the founders of the

Bolshevik The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

faction of the

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. In January 1912, he was elected to the

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of the Bolsheviks at the

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. In March of the same year, Spandaryan was arrested in

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, who considered Spandaryan a "very valuable and prominent worker" supported Spandaryan's father financially after the arrest, since the latter at that time lived in

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without any means. Spandaryan was sentenced to lifelong exile to

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, where he died four years later.Spandaryan, Suren Spandarovich
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Honors

There is a statue of him in

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. The towns of Spandaryan, Shirak, Spandaryan, Syunik and

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are named after him.

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1882 births 1916 deaths Writers from Tbilisi People from Tiflis Governorate Old Bolsheviks Armenian literary critics Armenian male writers Writers from the Russian Empire {{Armenia-writer-stub

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