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unusual facts about Armenian SSR



Ahliman Amiraslanov

Ahliman Tapdiq oğlu Amiraslanov (Əhliman Tapdıq oğlu Əmiraslanov) (born 1947 in Zod, Armenian SSR) is an oncologist, a professor and Rector of Azerbaijan Medical University.

Alexander Tamanian

He was the chief engineer of the local Council of People's Commissars and was a member of the CEC of the Armenian SSR (1925–1936), sponsored the construction industry, designed the layouts of towns and villages including Leninakan (now Gyumri) (1925), Stepanakert (1926), Nor-Bayazet (now Gavar) and Ahta-ahpara (both in 1927), Echmiadzin (1927–1928), and others.

Arsen Galstyan

Arsen Galstyan was born on February 19, 1989 in the village of Nerkin Karmiraghbyur in the north-east of Armenian SSR.

Gennady Timchenko

Gennady Timchenko was born in Leninakan (now Gyumri), Armenian SSR (Soviet Union) in 1952 with a father who was in the Soviet military.

Norair Aslanyan

Aslanyan was born on 25 March 1991 in the village of Qarahunj in the Armenian SSR, to Armenian parents.

Razmik Davoyan

Razmik Davoyan (born July 3, 1940, Medz Parni, Spitak rayon, Armenian SSR) is an Armenian poet.

Stepan Shahumyan

The city of Dzhalal-Ogly in the Armenian SSR was also renamed, in Shahumyan's honor, Stepanavan, a name it has retained in post-Soviet Armenia.

Turkish–Armenian War

The succeeding Treaty of Kars, signed by the representatives of Azerbaijan SSR, Armenian SSR, Georgian SSR, and the GNAT, ceded Adjara to Soviet Georgia in exchange for the Kars territory (today the Turkish provinces of Kars, Iğdır, and Ardahan).

Vladimir Fontikov

Born in Novorossiysk, Russian SFSR, to a Russian father and an Armenian mother, Fontikov moved to Yerevan, Armenian SSR in 1943 and lived there until 1962, when he began his studies at the Moscow Conservatory.


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Ilya Darevsky

From 1954 to 1962, worked in Armenia, first as a Ph. D. student, then as a Junior Researcher, Scientific Secretary and Head of the Department of Zoological Institute, Armenian SSR Academy of Sciences.