Tsatur Aghayan ( hy, Ծատուր Աղայան; – 3 December 1982) was a Soviet-Armenian historian, a professor at
Yerevan State University
Yerevan State University (YSU; hy, Երևանի Պետական Համալսարան, ԵՊՀ, ''Yerevani Petakan Hamalsaran''), also simply University of Yerevan, is the oldest continuously operating public university in Armenia. Founded in 1919 ...
, an
academician
An academician is a full member of an artistic, literary, engineering, or scientific academy. In many countries, it is an honorific title used to denote a full member of an academy that has a strong influence on national scientific life. In syst ...
of the
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 ...
, the editor of the journal ''
Lraber Hasarakakan Gitutyunneri
''Lraber Hasarakakan Gitutyunneri'' ( hy, Լրաբեր հասարակական գիտությունների "Bulletin/Review of Social Sciences") is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Armenian Academy of Sciences covering ...
'', and a renowned scientist of the
Armenian SSR
The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic,; russian: Армянская Советская Социалистическая Республика, translit=Armyanskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika) also commonly referred to as Soviet A ...
(1974). Aghayan was born in the village of Pip,
Dashkesan.
He headed the branches of Soviet and modern history at the Institute of History (Armenian Sciences Academy), and from 1961 to 1968, he directed the Armenian branch of the Institute of
Marxism-Leninism. His works are dedicated to the Armenian National Liberation Movement of the 19th and 20th centuries,
Andranik Ozanian's activities, and the socioeconomic conditions of pre-Soviet
Transcaucasia
The South Caucasus, also known as Transcaucasia or the Transcaucasus, is a geographical region on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, straddling the southern Caucasus Mountains. The South Caucasus roughly corresponds to modern Arme ...
. He died in 1982 in
Yerevan
Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i ...
.
He is buried in the Tokhmakh cemetery with Siranush Aghayan Simoni.
Ts. Aghayan's grave on Hush.am website
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Works
*From the history of Armenian people's liberational movement, Yerevan
Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i ...
, 1976,
*Revolutionary movements in Armenia 1905-1907, Yerevan
Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i ...
, 1955.
References
*Concise Armenian Encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan
Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i ...
, 1990, Vol. 1, p. 123.
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Biography
1912 births
1982 deaths
20th-century Armenian historians
Academics of Yerevan State University
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Soviet Armenians
Soviet historians
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