In 1904, in one of the borderline Armenian mountain villages of Sasun ruled a henchman of the Turks, the Kurdish leader Salih. He was known for his cruelty towards the disobedient Armenians of the mountain of Sasun. But the Armenians would not be Armenians if they had not taken a fair solution to this issue. …
Keep your urges away, I won’t take the Turks as people as long as there is at least one among them who claims that there was no Armenian Genocide and that Armenians were simply resettled. April 24, 1915, occupies a special place not only in the history of the Armenian Genocide but also in the …
Below is the farewell letter of Soghomon Tehlirian that he dedicated to his mother who had died tragically near the city of Yerznka during the Armenian Genocide of 1915. “To my mother… In the bottomless gloom of a faded memory, I was looking for you, my mother, horrified at the thought of losing you forever… …
ATMs have become an integral part of our lives, but not much is known about the author of the invention that has made life easier for billions of people. Much ahead of time, the first ATM was invented in 1939 by American scientist of Armenian descent Luther George Simjian (January 28, 1905 – October 23, …
On December 12, 1944, Soviet pilot Nelson Stepanyan perished bravely. Nelson Stepanyan directed his downed plane to an enemy ship. So Armenia fought, so the sons of Artsakh fought, and one was worth a division. For skeptics and doubters – in that last battle, along with Stepanyan died his navigator Alexey Rumyantsev. He did not …
Said Halim Pasha was the Great Vizier of the Ottoman Empire and one of the leaders of the Young Turks, the organizers of the Armenian Genocide. On December 5, 1921, he was killed by Arshavir Shirakyan in Rome. Shirakyan then managed to safely return to Constantinople. Excerpts from the memoirs of Arshavir Shirakyan (1900-1973) tell …
The Armenian people lived in the darkness of occupation, destruction, and bloodshed. Nzhdeh became the sun for his people. He gave the Armenians rays of hope and faith in struggle and victory. He gave the Armenian people a chance to build the future. In moments of grief, despondency, and defeat for the Armenian people, Nzhdeh …
34-year-old Iranian photographer of Armenian descent Newsha Tavakolian won the competition of the Dutch PrinceClaus Foundation in 2015. Within the scope of the project, Tavakolian worked in Syria and Iraq. “Newsha is one of the first professional photojournalists and women in Iran to skillfully combine the art of photojournalism with a new understanding of the …
When I deciphered the so-called “Urartian” cuneiform in 1959 and read it in the language of the archaic grabar (Classical Armenia), it was the end of the pseudoscientific concept of “Urartu”. It became completely clear that no state such as Urartu had ever existed. Instead, the teachings of the father of Armenian history Movses Khorenatsi …
April 12 is the Cosmonautics Day and International Day of Human Space Flight. On this day in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to journey into outer space. Armenians have also made their contribution to the development of astronautics. Remarkably, Armenians have for centuries studied space and the Universe. Andranik …
Rafael Alexandryan made a significant contribution to the development of the spectral theory of hyperbolic operators. Alexandryan developed the theory of self-adjoint operators. He also proposed a new technique for studying their spectral properties and introduced the concept of a spectrum core. Finally, he reduced the solution of problems of torsion and bending of rods …
There are people who you once meet and then feel the frequent need to communicate with. That was my acquaintance with Adik, one of those Baku Armenians who, having survived the pogroms, ended up in Yerevan in February 1990. Adik (Adolf Khachiyan) is the only and, alas, prodigal son in a family of hereditary Baku …
The name of “the father of the Soviet Marsokhod and Lunokhods,” as Kemurdzhyan (October 4, 1921 – February 25, 2003) was called, had been kept secret for a long time. In his interviews with reporters, Kemurdzhyan introduced himself as Alexandrov, Leonovich, Uglyov… But today, scientists from all over the world know him. In 1988, the …
On February 23, 2016, Yuri Oganessian, the scientific director of the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, discovered new chemical elements and figured out how to prolong their life. The discoveries of Yuri Oganessian brought the scientific world to the threshold beyond which subsequent elements will live not less and less but rather longer and longer …
Arshak “Keri” Gafavian was born in Karin (now Erzurum) in 1858. He graduated from the Armenian school in Karin. He was a member of the organization “Pashtpan Hayrenyats” (“Defenders of Fatherland”). In 1889, he collaborated with Uno (Harutyun Ter-Martirosyan). In 1890, he took part in the campaign of S. Kukunyan. In 1895, during the massacre …
Manuk-Bey Mirzoyan Manor located near the city of Hîncești (near Chișinău, Moldova) opened to visitors in December 2015. The restoration of the huge manor built in the 19th century began in 2006. After 9 years of continuous work by famous architects from Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine, the manor acquired its former appearance. As the chairman …
“Ladies and gentlemen! I’ve gotten acquainted with the article by Israel Baruch on the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. I am truly shocked and amazed. It is easy to notice hostility towards Armenia and the Armenian people, to a nation friendly to Israel. Despite the urgent strategic and political need, Armenia is an ally of …
Raphael Lemkin (June 24, 1900 – August 28, 1959) was an American lawyer of Polish-Jewish origin. He was the author of the term “genocide” and the draft of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Raphael Lemkin first dealt with the issue of the legal responsibility for the extermination …