Krikor Stepan Azaryan ( bg, Крикор Степан Азарян) (15 March 1934 – 14 December 2009) was a

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n director. A Bulgarian Armenian, Azaryan was born in

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. He graduated from what is today the

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in 1966 and was a post-graduate student in

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and

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

(then Leningrad) in the

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. He spent most of his career as a

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at the Theatre of the Bulgarian Army, though he has also worked for the

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, the National Theatre, the Satire Theatre and

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, as well as theatres in Moscow and

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. He has directed plays by

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Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; uk, link=no, Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, translit=Mykola Vasyliovych Hohol; (russian: Яновский; uk, Яновський, translit=Yanovskyi) ( – ) was a Russian novelist, ...

, Nikolay Haytov, etc. After spending 30 years as a professor of acting at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts, Azaryan left the academy to join

New Bulgarian University New Bulgarian University ( bg, Нов български университет, also known and abbreviated as НБУ, NBU) is a private university based in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Its campus is in the western district of the city, known ...

's theatre department in 2005. Azaryan was married to poet Valentina Radinska.

Awards

He won the Askeer theatre prize.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Azaryan, Krikor Bulgarian theatre directors 1934 births 2009 deaths People from Plovdiv Bulgarian people of Armenian descent New Bulgarian University faculty