Yervan Lalayan (Armenian: Երվանդ Լալայան Ալեքսանդրի, January 8 [O.S. December 27] 1864, Alexandrapol, Russian Empire - February 2, 1931, Yerevan, Soviet Armenia), ethnographer, archeologist, folklorist. He was also the founder and the first director of the History Museum of Armenia from 1919 to 1927. In 1885 he ended Tiflis's Nersisyan School and work in Akhaltsikhe and Akhalkalaki, and Alexandrapol as a teacher. In 1894 ending the faculty of social sciences in the University of Geneva. Receiving the level of Candidate of sociological sciences, he worked in the Mkhitarians of Venice. Returning to Armenia in 1895-1897 he worked in the diocesan school of Shusha. Here consolidating the outstanding scientists (Manuk Abeghian, T. Toramian, Hrachia Acharian, Leo, Melikset bek, S. Lisitsyan, Kh. Samuelyan, S. Zelinski, etc. ն he founded "The Ethnographic Magazine" in 1896. On November 21, 1900 he founded the Armenian Ethnographic publishing house in Tiflis. And in 1906 - Armenian Ethnographic Society. The museum of the society was transferred from Tiflis to Yerevan in 1921.
Lalayan’s works were regularly published in "Azgagrakan Handes" (Armenian: Ազգագագրական Հանդես, Ethnographic Magazine) in 1897-1916:
comprise only a part of his rich scientific heritage.