Lavrenty Ashotovich Barseghyan ( Armenian Լավրենտի Աշոտի Բարսեղյան ; January 7, 1937 , Yerevan - December 6, 2014 , ibid.) - Soviet and Armenian historian, founder Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide.
| Lavrenty Ashotovich Barseghyan | |||
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| arm Լավրենտի Աշոտի Բարսեղյան | |||
| Date of Birth | January 7, 1937 | ||
| Place of Birth | Yerevan , ZSFSR , Armenian SSR , USSR | ||
| Date of death | December 6, 2014 (aged 77) | ||
| Place of death | Yerevan , Armenia | ||
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| Scientific field | historian | ||
| Place of work | Armenian Genocide Museum | ||
| Alma mater | Yerevan State University | ||
| Academic degree | Doctor of Historical Sciences | ||
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Biography
In 1959 he graduated from the History Department of Yerevan State University.
- 1968-1972 - Head of the museum complex of the Erebuni fortress temple, led the restoration of the Erebuni fortress, the Garni temple, the house-museum of Hovhannes Tumanyan,
- 1973-1978 - in the apparatus of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR.
- 1978-1985 - Head of the cultural and restoration institutions of the Armenian SSR,
- 1988-1991 - Head of the Main Directorate for the Protection and Maintenance of Cultural and Historical Monuments under the Council of Ministers of the Armenian SSR,
- 1992-1995 - Assistant Vice President of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia.
Then - the founding director of the Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide.
The initiator of many museum scientific expositions.
Awards and titles
He was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor (08/07/1981). In 2002, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the International Fund Fridtjof Nansen, and in 2003 - the Movses Khorenatsi Medal.