Nairi Zarian (born Hayastan Yeghiazarian, hy, Նաիրի Զարյան, January 13, 1901, Kharakonis,

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– July 12, 1969,

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) was a Soviet and Armenian writer, poet and playwright. From 1944 to 1946, he was president of the

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. He also served the chairman of the Armenian SSR Committee for the Defense of Peace.

Biography

An orphan and survivor of the

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, he fled to Eastern Armenia in 1915.Zarian in Great Soviet Encyclopedia
/ref> In 1918, he fought as part of a militia against Ottoman forces in Western Armenia. He graduated from the history department of

Yerevan State University Yerevan State University (YSU; hy, Երևանի Պետական Համալսարան, ԵՊՀ, ''Yerevani Petakan Hamalsaran''), also simply University of Yerevan, is the oldest continuously operating public university in Armenia. Founded in 1919 ...

in 1927, then completed his postgraduate studies at the literary department of the Leningrad State Academy of the Arts in 1933. In the poem "Rock of Rushan" (1930) he showed "the socialistic resistance of an Armenian village". His novel "Hatsavan" (1937, completed and republished in 1947–1949) is dedicated to the process of

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. During

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, Zarian published a large number of poems and notes, in 1943 finishing his poem "The voice of Homeland". In 1946 his historical tragedy ''Ara Geghetsik'' was published. From 1951 to 1958 he was a deputy in the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR.

External links

Zarian in Armeniapedia

References

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