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16 unusual facts about Yerevan State University


Armenian Egyptology Centre

Egyptology and the Armenian Egyptology Centre (AEC) were both simultaneously created in Armenia on December 25, 2006 under the initiative of director, Dr. Christian Tutundjian de Vartavan, with the support of Prof. Aram Simonyan rector of the university, as well as many personalities of Armenian science and education.

Ervand Kogbetliantz

Dr. Kogbetliantz was an Armenian/American mathematician and the first president of the Yerevan State University.

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.

Nado Makhmudov

In addition to his Party education, Nado also received a university education and graduated from the History department of the Yerevan State University.

Vladimir Sargsyan


1990-1992 – Vice-rector for Scientific Affairs, YSU


1963-1965, 1967-1973 – Associate Professor of the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity Department YSU


1988-1990 – Dean of the Faculty of Mechanics, YSU


1973 – Professor of the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity, YSU


1969-1978 – Head of the Preparatory Division of YSU


1952-1957 – Studied at the Mechanics Department of Physics and Mathematics Faculty of YSU


1978-2003 – Head of Department of Solid Mechanics, YSU


1961-1963 – Senior Lecturer, Department of Higher Mathematics at YSU


1957-1959 – Assistant of the Mechanics Department YSU


2007 – Honorary Head of the Department of Mechanics, YSU


1996-2007 – Dean of the Faculty of Mechanics, YSU


1965-1967 – Senior Research Fellow of the Research Section of YSU


Arkadi Ghukasyan

Born in Stepanakert, in the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Republic of the Azerbaijan SSR on 22 June 1957, he graduated in 1979 from Yerevan State University with a degree in linguistics.