Ashot Aristakesovich Sahratyan (; , July 2, 1936 – November 20, 2015) was an

Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to ...

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, translator and artist. He was awarded the Golden Pushkin medal.Сагратян
/ref> In 1958 Sahratyan graduated from

Yerevan State University Yerevan State University (YSU; , , ), also simply University of Yerevan, is the oldest continuously operating public university in Armenia. Founded in 1919, it is the largest university in the country. It is thus informally known as Armenia's ...

and later worked as a lecturer at the

Maxim Gorky Literature Institute The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute () is an institution of higher education in Moscow, Russia. It is located at 25 Tverskoy Boulevard in central Moscow. History The institute was founded in 1933 on the initiative of Maxim Gorky, a writer, foun ...

from 1969 to 1995. He was a member of the Board of the Translators' Union of Russia.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sahratyan, Ashot Aristakesovich Armenian male poets Russian people of Armenian descent Writers from Moscow 2015 deaths 1936 births Russian male poets Armenian translators 20th-century Russian translators