Find A Grave - Komitas Pantheon

Abrahamyan, Khoren b. April 1, 1930 d. December 9, 2004
Actor. Born in Yerevan, Armenia, he graduated from the Acting Department of Yerevan Fine Arts and Theatre Institute in 1951. He was renowned as one of the Soviet Union's most popular performers, being featured in many leading roles in both theatre and cinema. Later in his career, he was the executive director of the Sundukyan Drama Theatre of Yerevan and artistic director of the Ajemyan Drama Theatre of Leninakan. He died of a heart attack. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Komitas Pantheon, Yerevan, K'aghak' Yerevan, Armenia
Khachaturian, Aram b. June 6, 1903 d. May 1, 1978
Composer. He was educated at the Gnesin School and the Moscow Conservatory. Together with Prokofiev and Shostakovich he was one of the most popular and successful composers of the Soviet period. His unique musical idiom was marked by his Armenian heritage. His scores are noted for their sensuous, singing melodic writing, colorful orchestration, and elemental rhythmic drive. Known in the West chiefly as the composer of instrumental concerti and the vivid scores for the ballets Gayaneh and...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Komitas Pantheon, Yerevan, K'aghak' Yerevan, Armenia
Margaryan, Andranik b. June 12, 1951 d. March 25, 2007
Prime Minister of Armenia. He began his political involvement in the 1960s when he joined the National Unity Party, a dissident organization that advocated for Armenia's secession from the Soviet Union. In 1972 he graduated from Yerevan Polytechnic Institute as a computer engineer. Margaryan worked as a scientist for various private companies, research institutes and government offices. He was arrested in 1974, convicted of espousing subversive ideas, and sentenced to two years in Soviet labor...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Komitas Pantheon, Yerevan, K'aghak' Yerevan, Armenia
Mirzoyan, Edvard b. May 12, 1921 d. October 5, 2012
Composer. Called the father of Armenian classical music, he drew on the folk songs of his country to create a respected body of work. Born in what was then Soviet Georgia, he trained in Yerevan at the Komitas State Conservatory which is named for a martyr of the Armenian Genocide, joined the Red Army in 1942, and during World War II produced a number of patriotic pieces. Mirzoyan moved to Moscow for further education in 1946 then in 1948 returned to Armenia and a professorship of composition at...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Komitas Pantheon, Yerevan, K'aghak' Yerevan, Armenia
Mkrtchyan, Mher 'Frunzik' b. July 4, 1930 d. December 29, 1993
Armenian film and theater actor, People's Artist of the USSR (1984). He studied in Leninakan Art College and Theatre Studio, then finished at the Acting Department of Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts and Theatre. He directed many successful productions, most notably Maxim Gorky's "The Lower Depths". His cinema career began in 1955. His famous roles were in Rolan Bykov's "Aybolit-66" (1966), Leonid Gaidai's "Kidnapping, Caucasian Style" (1966), and Georgi Daneliya's "Mimino" (1977). He gained the...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul S.)
Komitas Pantheon, Yerevan, K'aghak' Yerevan, Armenia
Sarian, Martiros b. February 28, 1880 d. May 5, 1972
Painter. Martiros Saryan was born to an Armenian family in Nor Nakhijevan (now part of Rostov-on-Don, Russian). At the turn of the 20th century he studied at the Moscow School of Arts and was heavily influenced by the work of artists such as Gauguin and Matisse. He traveled extensively through the Middle East starting in 1910 and in 1915 went to Etchmiadzin, Armenia to help refugees of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. He married his wife Lusik Agayan lived in Russia for a few years following the...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul S.)
Komitas Pantheon, Yerevan, K'aghak' Yerevan, Armenia
Saroyan, William b. August 31, 1908 d. May 18, 1981
Author. Born in Fresno, California, he was the fourth child of Armenian immigrants from Bitlis. His father was a preacher and poet who died when Saroyan was 3. The next year young William was placed in an orphanage with his siblings because their mother was unable to provide for them; he remained there five years before being reunited with his mother. A high school drop out at 15, he educated himself at the Fresno Public Library. At the age of eighteen he left home and after a difficult...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul S.)
Komitas Pantheon, Yerevan, K'aghak' Yerevan, Armenia
Plot: * Half of cremated remains
Yengibaryan, Vladimir b. April 24, 1932 d. February 1, 2013
Olympic Athlete. A native of Armenia, he was a boxer and gold medalist during the 1956 Summer Olympics at Melbourne, Australia. Fighting in the Light Welterweight Division, he won the Gold in the final match against Italian boxer Franco Nenci. After this victory, he was honored of the highest sports awards of the Soviet Union. In addition to the Olympic title, Yengibaryan won three editions of the European Championships and the bronze medal in the edition held in East Berlin, Germany in 1955...[Read More] (Bio by: Ruggero)
Komitas Pantheon, Yerevan, K'aghak' Yerevan, Armenia

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