In ancient times it was known as Mets Kznut, but from 1830-1922 it was called Nerkin Gharanlugh and in 1926 it was changed to Martuni in honor of the first Soviet premier of Armenia, Aleksandr Myasnikyan, whose nom de guerre was "Martuni".
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Stackelberg | Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov | Aleksandr Usov | Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleship | ''Imperator Aleksandr II''-class | Aleksandr Rodzyanko | Aleksandr Panayotov | Aleksandr Loktionov | Aleksandr Viktorovich Zakharov | Aleksandr Vasilyev | Aleksandr's Price | Aleksandr Shavlokhov | Aleksandr Myasnikyan | Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov | Aleksandr Lyapunov | Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov | Aleksandr Derevyagin | Aleksandr Burago | Aleksandr Baranov | Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr III | Russian battleship ''Imperator Aleksandr III''' | Battleship ''Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr III | Aleksandr Zakharov | Aleksandr Yuryevich Gushchin | Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Nechayev | Aleksandr Yakovlevich Chistyakov | Aleksandr Vyacheslavovich Chistyakov | Aleksandr Voronsky | Aleksandr Vladimirovich Nechayev |
During the autumn 1917/winter of 1918, the Western Oblast was headed by Aleksandr Myasnikyan as head of the Western Oblast's Military Revolutionary Committee, who passed this duty on to Karl Lander.