Tadevos Khachaturi Hakobyan (; 15 June 1917 – 15 October 1989) was a Soviet
Armenian
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* Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent
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historian and
geographer
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.
Biography
Hakobyan was born in 1917 in the village of
Lernadzor
Lernadzor () is a village in the Kajaran Municipality of the Syunik Province in Armenia.
Toponymy
The village was previously known as ''Kyurdikend''.
Demographics
The village's population was 866 at the 2011 census, up from 416 at the 2001 ...
, now in Armenia's southern province of
Syunik. In 1940, he graduated from the Faculty of Geography and Geology of
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 ...
(YSU). In 1942–43, he fought in the
Eastern Front of World War II
The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in modern Germany and Ukraine, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Al ...
. He was the dean of the YSU's Faculty of Geography in 1955–57 and 1963–65. He then served as the chair of that department from 1962 to 1986. Most of his work was focused on the
historical geography
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of Armenia. Together with Stepan Melik-Bakhshyan and Hovhannes Barseghyan, he authored the monumental five-volume ''Dictionary of Toponomy of Armenia and Adjacent Territories'' (). He also authored several textbooks.
Selected works
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References
Further reading
* Obituary by Hovhannes Barseghyan.
External links
Tadevos Hakobyan's biography(in Armenian). .
(in Armenian)
Works by Tadevos Hakobyanat
Internet Archive
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''Dictionary of Toponomy of Armenia and Adjacent Territories'' on Nayiri.com(in Armenian)
Works by Tadevos Hakobyanat the
National Library of Armenia Armenian Book Catalog
Works by Tadevos Hakobyanat the Pan-Armenian Digital Library
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1917 births
1989 deaths
Soviet historians
Soviet Armenians
Soviet geographers