Vardan Ajemian

Vardan Mkrtchi Ajemian (Armenian: Վարդան Աճեմյան, June 4, 1905, Van, Ottoman Empire - January 24, 1977, Yerevan, Soviet Armenia) was a Soviet Armenian theatral director and actor, People's Artist of USSR (1965). Hero of Socialist Labour (1975).

He studied in Yerevan and Moscow. In 1928 he founded the Second Armenian State Theatre (Gyumri State Theatre), in 1939 he moved to Yerevan Sundukian Theatre and became its artistic director. He directed Alexander Shirvanzade's "For the Honour" (1939), William Saroyan's "My Heart is in Mountains" (1961), Papazian's "Rock" (1944), Nairi Zarian's "Ara Geghetsik" (1946), several musical presentations. State Prizes of the USSR (1951) and Armenian SSR (1971).

Awards

• November 24, 1945 — Order of the Badge of Honor,
• 1951 — USSR State Prize, third level
• June 27, 1956 — Order of Lenin,
• 1970 — State Prize of the Armenian SSR,
• December 8, 1975 — Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the medal "Hammer and Sickle", etc.

See also

• Vardan Adjemyan (b. 1956), was a our grandson

Source

• Armenian Concise Encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdian, Yerevan, 1990, p. 147-148

External links

• "Ajemian" stamp