List of Armenian-Russians
Encyclopedia
Musicians
- Aram KhachaturianAram KhachaturianAram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...
, composer - Irina AllegrovaIrina AllegrovaIrina Aleksandrovna Allegrova is a Russian singer of Russian and Armenian descent.-Biography:Irina Allegrova was born in Rostov-on-Don in 1952. Her Armenian father Alexander Sarkisov took the last name Allegrov as a pseudonym when he was just 17 and Irina was born under the name Allegrova. Her...
, pop singer - Sergey Galoyan, music producer
- Tina KandelakiTina KandelakiTina Kandeláki is a Russian journalist, young politician, TV presenter and producer. A co-owner of the Apostol Media Group company.- Bio :Tina’s father Givi Kandelaki was an economist and the director of a vegetable depot in Tbilisi. Lived in Moscow after his retirement. Givi Kandelaki is...
, pop singer - Armen GrigoryanArmen GrigoryanArmen Grigoryan is a singer/songwriter and artist, the front man of "Krematorij" Russian rock-band.-Biography:Grigoryan was born on November 24, 1960 in Moscow by Armenian parents...
, singer songwriter - Stas NaminStas NaminStas Namin is a Russian-Armenian musician, composer, and record producer; artist and photographer; theatre and film director and producer; entrepreneur, promoter, and businessman...
, music producer - Mikael TariverdievMikael TariverdievMikael Tariverdiev |Georgia]] - 24 June 1996, Sochi, Russia) was a prominent Soviet composer of Armenian descent. He headed the Composers' Guild of Soviet Cinematographers' Union from its inception.-Biography:...
, composer - Avraam RussoAvraam RussoAvraam Russo is a Russian-Armenian pop singer. In 2006 he suffered an assassination attempt in Russia and was heavily injured. He recovered and is living in New York City....
, pop singer
Entertainment
- Yevgeny VakhtangovYevgeny VakhtangovYevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov was a Russian actor and theatre director who founded the Vakhtangov Theatre. He was a friend and mentor of Michael Chekhov.Vakhtangov was born to Armenian-Russian parents from Ossetia in Vladikavkaz...
, theatre actor - Frunzik Mkrtchyan, actor
- Armen DzhigarkhanyanArmen DzhigarkhanyanArmen Dzigarkhanyan is one of the most popular Soviet, Russian and Armenian actors.He starred in dozens of Soviet films and provided the voice for many cartoon characters. He founded his own theater in Moscow.Dzigarkhanyan worked as assistant cameraman at Armenfilm studios in 1953–1954...
, actor - Garik MartirosyanGarik MartirosyanGarik Martirosyan is a neurologist, entertainer, TV host, actor, comedian and singer. He's the co-producer and host of the Comedy Club Russia which airs on Russian TV channel ТНТ.- Biography :...
, entertainer, comedian - Yevgeny PetrosyanYevgeny PetrosyanYevgeny Vaganovich Petrosyan is a Soviet/Russian comedian of Armenian and Jewish descents. He was named in 2005 among the most influential figures in contemporary Russia, in a survey conducted by independent polling agency The Levada Centre...
, comedian - Sergei Parajanov, film director and artist
Sport
- Tigran PetrosianTigran PetrosianTigran Vartanovich Petrosian was a Soviet-Armenian grandmaster, and World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He was nicknamed "Iron Tigran" due to his playing style because of his almost impenetrable defence, which emphasised safety above all else...
, chess player World champion - Garry KasparovGarry KasparovGarry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist, and one of the greatest chess players of all time....
(Kasparyan), chess player World champion - Nikita Simonian, footballer, VP of Russian Football Federation
Politics
- Anastas MikoyanAnastas MikoyanAnastas Ivanovich Mikoyan was an Armenian Old Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the rules of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev....
, Soviet statesman - Stepan ShahumyanStepan ShahumyanStepan Gevorgi Shahumyan was a Bolshevist Russian communist politician and revolutionary active throughout the Caucasus. Shahumyan was an ethnic Armenian and his role as a leader of the Russian revolution in the Caucasus earned him the nickname of the "Caucasian Lenin", a reference to the leader...
, Soviet bolshevist - Arthur Chilingarov, Deputy Chairman of State DumaState DumaThe State Duma , common abbreviation: Госду́ма ) in the Russian Federation is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia , the upper house being the Federation Council of Russia. The Duma headquarters is located in central Moscow, a few steps from Manege Square. Its members are referred to...
- Sergey LavrovSergey LavrovSergey Viktorovich Lavrov is the Foreign Minister of Russia. Prior to that, Lavrov was a Soviet diplomat and Russia's ambassador to the United Nations from 1994 to 2004. Lavrov speaks Russian, English, French and Sinhala....
, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Military
- Mikhail Tarielovich Loris-MelikovMikhail Tarielovich Loris-MelikovCount Mikhail Tarielovich Loris-Melikov was a Russian-Armenian statesman, General of the Cavalry, and Adjutant General of H. I. M. Retinue....
, Russian Empire statesman - Valerian MadatovValerian MadatovPrince Valerian Grigoryevich Madatov was an Armenian prince and a lieutenant-general of the Russian Empire.-Early life:...
, Russian Empire general - Ivan Davidovich Lazarev, Russian Empire general
- Ivan Bagramian, Marshal of USSR
- Hovhannes Stepani IsakovIvan IsakovHovhannes Stepani Isakov -Early life:Ivan Isakov was born Hovhannes Ter-Isahakyan in the family of an Armenian railway worker in the village of Hadjikend in the Kars Oblast, then a part of the Russian Empire...
, military commander, chief of staff and Admiral of the Fleet in the Soviet NavySoviet NavyThe Soviet Navy was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet, the Soviet Navy would have played an instrumental role in a Warsaw Pact war with NATO, where it would have attempted to prevent naval convoys from bringing reinforcements across the Atlantic Ocean... - Movses Silikov, Russian general
Science
- Artem Mikoyan, designer of MiG aircraft. Mikoyan's fighters showed 55 world records. The Mikoyan MiG-19 was the first supersonic Soviet jet fighter
- Viktor Ambartsumian, one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics
- Sergei AdianSergei AdianSergei Ivanovich Adian, also Adjan is one of the most prominent Soviet and Russian mathematicians. He is a professor at the Moscow State University. He is most famous for his work in group theory, especially on the Burnside problem.-Biography:...
- one of the most prominent soviet mathematicians - Abraham AlikhanovAbraham AlikhanovAbraham Isahakovich Alikhanov was a Soviet Armenia physicist, academic, and member of the USSR Academy of Sciences...
, Soviet physicist, one of the founders of nuclear physics in USSR, founder of the first nuclear reactor of USSR - Tateos AgekianTateos AgekianTateos Artemjevich Agekian was an outstanding Soviet astrophysicist of Armenian descent, one of the pioneers of Russian and world Stellar dynamics. Has found two evolutionary sequences of stellar systems: nearly spherical and strongly flattened. Suggested essentially new method to investigate the...
, astrophysicist, one of the pioneers of Stellar Dynamics - Gurgen AskaryanGurgen AskaryanGurgen Askaryan was a prominent Soviet physicist, famous for his discovery of the self-focusing of light, pioneering studies of light-matter interactions, and the discovery and investigation of the interaction of high-energy particles with condensed matter...
, physicist, inventor of light self focusing - Boris BabaianBoris BabaianBoris Artashesovich Babayan is an Armenian supercomputer architect, notable as the pioneering creator of supercomputers in the Soviet Union....
, the father of supercomputing in the former Soviet Union and Russia. Second European to hold the Intel Fellow title - Mikhail ChailakhyanMikhail ChailakhyanMikhail Khristoforovich Chailakhyan was an Armenian-Russian scientist who is widely known for proposing the existence of a universal plant hormone that is involved in flowering. He named this hormone florigen in 1936. His studies included the mechanisms of flowering, tuberization and sex...
, founder of hormonal theory of plant development - Andronik IosifyanAndronik IosifyanAndronik Iosifyan was a Soviet scientist of Armenian descent in the field of electrical engineering....
, a great scientist and inventor, the father of electromechanics in USSR, designer of the first meteorological satellites of Earth and one of the founders of missilery. Iosifyan was one of the most outstanding figures in the field of military and rocket production. Being the founder and first director of the USSR’s largest scientific research institute of electro-mechanics, Iosifyan for about thirty years was the USSR's “classified” Chief Constructor of electrical equipment of ballistic rockets, nuclear submarines and spacecrafts. One of his most important inventions, noncontact synchronized transmissions, considered a revolution in technology - Semyon Kirlian, founder of Kirlian Photography, discovered that living matter is emitting energy fields.
- Ivan Knuniants, chemist, Major General, four times an awardee of the USSR State Award. In chemical science he introduced historical changes and significantly contributed to the advancement of Soviet Chemistry. Founder of Soviet school of fluorocarbon's chemistry, one of major developers of Soviet chemical weapons program
- Alexander Merzhanov, acknowledged leader in the scientific field of combustion and explosion, inventor of the Self-propagating high temperature synthesis (SHS)
- Alexander KemurdzhianAlexander KemurdzhianAlexander Leonovich Kemurdzhian was a pioneering scientist, from Armenian origin, in the space flight program of the Soviet Union...
, designer of the first rovers to explore another world: first moon rovers and first mars rovers. Founder of the space transport engineering - Alexander Narinyani, father of soviet artificial intelligence (AI), author of novel theory involving the conception of sub-defined models, founder of the new scientific field - constraint programming
- Leon OrbeliLeon OrbeliLevon Orbeli was an Armenian physiologist active in the Russian SFSR. He was a member of the Academies of Science of USSR and Armenian SSR...
, founder of the evolutionary physiology - Artem Sarkisyan, a pioneer scientist in numerical modelling of ocean circulation , one of the world's leading oceanologists
- Norair SisakianNorair SisakianNorair Martirosovich Sisakian was a Soviet Armenian biochemist, academic, one of the founders of space biology, an outstanding organizer of science, a member of the Pugwash movement...
, one of the founders of space biology, pioneer in biochemistry of sub-cell structures and technical biochemistry. Was one of the first scientists in the mid-1940s to start the studies of plant cell structures. Author of an absolutely new concept of chloroplasts as polyfunctional cell structures. Was the first soviet scientist to work in UNESCO.