Ananyan, Vakhtang Stepanovich

Vakhtang Stepanovich Ananyan
Vakhtang Stepanovich Ananyan
	arm Վախթանգ Անանյան
Date of Birth	August 8, 1905
Place of Birth	Pogos- Kilisa Shamakhyan , Russia
Date of death	March 4, 1980 ( 74)
Place of death	Yerevan , Armenian SSR
Citizenship	the USSR
Occupation	prose writer
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Vakhtang Stepanovich Ananyan ( Armenian Վախթանգ Անանյան ) ( August 8, 1905 - March 4, 1980 ) - Armenian writer, author of adventure stories and work “Animal World of Armenia”.

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Biography

Vakhtang Ananyan was born in the village of Pogos-Kilitsa, now the village of Shamakhyan, not far from Dilijan in a poor peasant family. He graduated from several classes of the school, but later had to forget about studying. He worked as a shepherd.

After the October Revolution, he joined the Komsomol , continued his studies, began to send notes to the "Peasant newspaper". He graduated from a party school. In 1931, his first book “In the Ring of Fire” was published on the adventures of adolescents during the Civil War .

He participated as a volunteer in the Great Patriotic War . After the war, his front-line book, After the War, was published.

In the 1950s , he wrote a story about the adventures of adolescents, “On the Sevan Coast,” which was translated into a number of languages of the peoples of the USSR and abroad and was reprinted several times. His other book, Prisoners of the Barsova Gorge, was also popular.

In addition, he wrote a number of books on the nature of Armenia , collections of short stories and short stories, as well as the multi-volume popular science work “The Animal World of Armenia” ^[1] .

Died March 4, 1980 in Yerevan .

Rewards

2 orders of the Red Banner of Labor (06/27/1956; 08/30/1965)
Order of Friendship of Peoples (08.13.1975)
Order of the Badge of Honor
medals

Artwork

In the ring of fire
After the war
On the shore of Sevan
Prisoners of the Barsova Gorge
Animal World of Armenia
Along the mountain trails
Footprints on the trail
Hunter stories
Little resident of an old tent

Notes

↑ Ananyan, Vakhtang Stepanovich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.

[1] Ananyan, Vakhtang Stepanovich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.