People's Artist of the Armenian SSR

People's Artist of the Armenian SSR
Awarded for	Outstanding achievements in the performing arts
Country	Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Presented by	Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR
First awarded	October 23, 1931; 93 years ago (1931-10-23)

People's Artist of the Armenian SSR (Народный артист Армянской ССР), is an honorary title awarded to citizens of the Armenian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is awarded for outstanding performance in the performing arts, whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts (theatre, music, dance, circus, cinema, etc.).

List of recipients (partial list)

• Alexander Arutiunian[1]
• Tigran Levonyan
• Hovhannes Abelian
• Djivan Gasparyan
• Khoren Abrahamyan
• Henrik Malyan
• Svetlana Navasardyan
• Konstantin Orbelyan
• Aram Khachaturian[2]
• Frunzik Mkrtchyan[3]
• Vladimir Kocharyan[4]
• Zeynab Khanlarova

See also

• People's Artist of the USSR

References

1. "Арутюнян Александр Григорьевич - Биография". www.biografija.ru. Archived from the original on 2017-10-26. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
2. "Хачатурян Арам Ильич". www.warheroes.ru. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
3. "Home". frunzik.com.
4. "Владимир Кочарян". Кино-Театр.РУ. Retrieved 2017-09-13.

External links

• Media related to People's Artists of the Armenian SSR at Wikimedia Commons