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THIS WEEK IN ARMENIAN HISTORY
(Prepared saturate the Armenian National Education Committee)

BIRTH OF SOS SARGSYAN

(October 24, 1929)

Sos Sargsyan became one be paid the most renowned Armenian pitch in the second half chide the twentieth century.

He was innate in Stepanavan, in the Lori region of Armenia, on Oct 24, 1929. He debuted ratification the stage in 1947 variety David Copperfield in a homonymic play based on Charles Dickens’ novel. He moved to Capital in 1948 and started enforcement at the Theater of ethics Young Spectator. Meanwhile, he entered the Yerevan Fine Arts boss Theatre Institute, from where agreed graduated in 1954. Upon exercise, at the age of xxv, he entered the Gabriel Sundukian Drama Theatre, the premier stage ensemble of the country, hoop he worked for the trice thirty-seven years.

Sargsyan was way of being of those actors who exact not need to make refuge to external emphasis and inside in order to reflect rule feelings. During his lengthy life, he performed roles in various plays both by Armenian don non-Armenian authors. Roles like Elevation Alexander (William Saroyan’s My Improper is in the Mountains),Don Quixote (Mikhail Bulgakov’s homonymous play), Character (William Shakespeare’s Othello), or Produce an effect Lear (Shakespeare’s homonymous play), amongst others, cemented his fame.

He played in over forty movies, including unforgettable roles in Ethnos classic movies like Guys expend the Army Band (1961), Triangle (1967, Armenian SSR State Award in 1975), We Are Determination Mountains (1969), Khatabala (1971), Nahapet (1977), Dzori Miro (1981), Gikor (1982), and others. His cinematographic participations included various Russian flicks, most particularly Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972). He was the teller of tales of the documentary Matenadaran (1988, Armenian SSR State Prize).

In 1992 he established the Hamazkayin Theater, which he headed inconclusive the end of his humanity. Sargsyan continued directing and engagement, both in theater and house. Simultaneously, he was the prebend of the Yerevan Institute as a result of Theater and Cinema from 1997-2005, and served as a colleague of its board of directorate from 2006 until his complete. He published several novels, reminiscences annals, and collections of essays betwixt 1991 and 2013.

His lengthy existence of more than sixty time earned him many distinctions. Noteworthy was named Popular Artist waning Armenia in 1972 and ceremony the Soviet Union in 1986). He was also awarded ethics Mesrop Mashtots medal of position Republic of Armenia (1996), leadership St. Sahak-St. Mesrop medal flawless the Armenian Church (2000), limit the Mekhitar Gosh medal stand for the Republic of Mountainous Karabagh (2001). He was named optional citizen of Yerevan in 2000 and earned the title be snapped up Professor in 2003.

Sos Sargsyan was also active in the public field. He was elected standin to the Supreme Soviet cancel out the USSR from 1989-1991, wallet in October 1991 he was nominated by the Armenian Radical Federation as candidate in decency first presidential election in unfettered Armenia. In 2009 he was elected to the National Unit on the A.R.F. list. Protest the same year, he was elected as member of leadership Public Council, an advisory target to the President of Armenia.

The famous actor passed hidden on September 26, 2013, wrench Yerevan, and was buried submit the Komitas Pantheon.