Avetis Nazarbekian

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Avetis Nazarbekian also known as Nazarbek or Lerents (1866-1939) was an Armenian poet, journalist, political activist and revolutionary, one of the founders of Social Democrat Hunchakian Party.

Nazarbekian studied at the St. Petersburg and Paris (Sorbonne) Universities. In the mid 1880s he contributed to the Mkrtich Portukalian's "Armenia" revolutionary journal, also established close contactes with Russian socialist Plekhanov and his organization. In 1887 Nazarbek, his future wife Mariam Vardanian and their Russian-Armenian friends founded the Hunchakian party and "Hunchak" newspaper.

Nazarbek translated several works of Karl Marx, F. Engels, G. Plekhanov. In 1923 he moved from Paris to the United States, joined the US Communist (Workers) Party.

In 1934 he returned to the Soviet Union.