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unusual facts about Soviet Armenia



Mark Krikorian

Krikorian studied two years at Yerevan State University in then-Soviet Armenia, after which he returned to the United States and obtained a Bachelors Degree from Georgetown University followed by a Masters Degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Nahapet

Left for dead, Nahapet is able to make his way to a bleak and cold village in Aragats (filmed in Talin), a part of the new state of Soviet Armenia.


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3027 Shavarsh

This is named after the Soviet-Armenian swimming Champion and hero Shavarsh Karapetyan, who saved over 20 people from a trolley that fell to the bottom of a lake.

Carlos Sayadyan

Carlos was only 13 when he was awarded the first prize at an exhibition dedicated to the 40th anniversary of Soviet Armenia while still attending H. Kojoyan’s Children’s Fine Arts School.

Radio Yerevan

Radio Yerevan jokes, satirical quotes about life in Soviet Armenia and in USSR era

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.