Individuals who left their creative traces in the pages of history. Outstanding figures of Armenian and foreign culture, science, spiritual and public life, their life and activity in the format of  TV encyclopedia. 

Mikael Tariverdiev


Mikael Tariverdiev is one of the famous Soviet composers. He was especially known for his music written especially for movies. His music and songs written for the films "Seventeen Moments of Spring", "The Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath" are remembered and performed today. Tariverdiev is the author of many symphonic works, ballets and organ music. 
 

Tigran Petrosyan


Biography of the 9th world chess champion Tigran Petrosyan.

 

 

Aram Khachatryan


Aram Khachaturian is one of the greatest representatives of Armenian classical music, the most famous Armenian in the world. In fact, Khachatryan became the most significant successor to Komitas's work. The great composer is world famous for his "Spartak" and "Gayane" ballets, three symphonies and numerous concerts.

 

 

 

Alexey Hekimyan


Alexey Hekimyan- general composer of the Police.

Konrad Lorenz


His memories of Armenia were contradictory. He lived a bitter life of a prisoner of war in our country.  But he always remembered that he started writing two of his best works on the shores of Sevan. The prisoner of war was not allowed to give paper or ink, he wrote on empty bags of cement supplied for construction with potassium permanganate. The book "The Opposite Side of the Mirror" was finally awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1972. Life and work of Austrian biologist Konrad Lorenz.

Hovhannes Baghramyan


Prominent Armenian military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union Hovhannes Baghramyan.

Vahram Papazyan


Vahram Papazyan's "Othello" was recognized as one of the best roles in the world. None of the Armenian actors has achieved such international recognition and fame as Papazyan did. He also left behind five volumes of literary heritage, which are among the best pages of Armenian prose.

 

Suren Kocharyan


Some called his art literary estrada, some - reciting. Actually, Suren Kocharyan was the founder of one-actor theatre. 
 

Hakob Mndzuri


Hakob Mndzuri is the latest Western Armenian writer. In 1915, Mndzuri left for Constantinople for a short time, but never returned to the village Armtan. Days after he left, his parents, wives and four children were killed. He wrote about the village Armtan in Yerznka province for all his life. The first book was published when he was very old. His prose was a revelation in Armenian literature. Today, Mndzuri is perceived as one of the greatest Armenian prose writers.
 

Vahan Teryan


A poet, who turned the process of the development of Armenian literature. Vahan Teryan is a great reformer of the Armenian poetry, one of the apexes of the Armenian literature. He brought new topics, language and means of expression. The questions of the peotic methods of Vahan Teryan, his literary views, the national essence of his poems are still subject of discusssions. 

Stepan Zoryan


Stepan Zoryan's works are one of the best pages of the Armenian prose. Stepan Zoryan, as a member of the Teryan’s school of literature, is the bearer and applier of pure Armenian language. The author of the best novels of Armenian literature - "The Armenian Fortress", "King Pap" and "Varazdat" is also a genius representative of a small-scale prose. His other courageous deed was the unsurpassable translation of Lev Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace".
Zoryan is sometimes blamed for not protecting his colleagues during the stalinist violence. Meanwhile, he himself had to be concerned himself ...
 

 

Alexander Myasnikyan


By the efforts of Alexander Myasnikyan, Lori and Zangezur remained within the Soviet Armenia. He never signed the decision of Stalin on leaving Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan. The most prominent Armenian military and state figure came to the homeland exhausted from hunger and typhus, and was able to put the country's economy into development, reconcile those who became hostile because of civil war, invited many prominent Armenian scientists and artists to Armenia to rebuild the country with joint efforts. His life ended with tragic death, in which Stalin and Beria were suspected.