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Some called his art literary estrada, some - reciting. Actually, Suren Kocharyan was the founder of one-actor theatre. 

 

Hakob Mndzuri is the latest Western Armenian writer. In 1915, Mndzuri left for Constantinople for a short time, but never returned to the village Armtan. Days after he left, his parents, wives and four children were killed. He wrote about the village Armtan in Yerznka province for all his life. The first book was published when he was very old. His prose was a revelation in Armenian literature. Today, Mndzuri is perceived as one of the greatest Armenian prose writers.

 

A poet, who turned the process of the development of Armenian literature. Vahan Teryan is a great reformer of the Armenian poetry, one of the apexes of the Armenian literature. He brought new topics, language and means of expression. The questions of the peotic methods of Vahan Teryan, his literary views, the national essence of his poems are still subject of discusssions. 

By the efforts of Alexander Myasnikyan, Lori and Zangezur remained within the Soviet Armenia. He never signed the decision of Stalin on leaving Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan. The most prominent Armenian military and state figure came to the homeland exhausted from hunger and typhus, and was able to put the country's economy into development, reconcile those who became hostile because of civil war, invited many prominent Armenian scientists and artists to Armenia to rebuild the country with joint efforts. His life ended with tragic death, in which Stalin and Beria were suspected.

The most common legend about Alfred Nobel is that no Nobel Prize is awarded in mathematics because the lover of the inventor’s wife was a mathematician. As a matter of fact, Nobel was never married. In his biographers' opinion, as a very practical scientist, Nobel regarded mathematics as a very abstract field of knowledge, where it is impossible to determine which discovery can be regarded higher than the other.

In Tsarist Russia Lazaryans were known as philanthropists, national and public officials. It was due their efforts that the first Armenian Churches were constructed in the two Russian capitals. The most significant of those was the opening of Lazaryan Seminary in 1815 through the efforts of Lazaryan brothers. This education institutions late become Lazaryan Institute for Eastern Languages – the cornerstone of Eastern studies of Russia. For nearly one and half century it provided education opportunities to Armenian and Russian prominent writers, cultural figures, philologists and historians. 

“If architecture was a stone music, then Toros Toramanyan has turned that stone into live music”, said Avetik Isahakyan. “He is as much a splendid singer of our magnificient ruins and musieums”. TV Encyclopedia present the life and scientific activities of famous architect, scientist Toros Toramanyan. 

When asked the question what was his biggest invention, he said it was meeting the dawn from the kite. Outstanding chemist – this was how everyone knew him. Yet, for the sake of truth, it should be noted that only 10 percent of his overall works were devoted to chemistry. The life and fate of Dmitri Mendeleev on the screen of Shoghakat in the series Encyclopedia. 

In the evening of 29 September 1913, on the steamer in Antwerp on his way to a London, one of the German men after the dinner retired to his cabin at about 10 p.m., leaving word to be called the next morning at 6:15 a.m. In the morning his cabin was tidy, with his watch left where it could be seen from the bed, but the passenger was missing. The missing person was world known engineer Rudolf Diesel.