Suren Spandaryan

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Armenian Suren Spandaryan (left) and Joseph Stalin in 1915, during their exile

Suren Spandaryan(Tiflis, 1882 - Krasnoyarsk 1916) was a Armenian literature critic, publicist and Bolshevik. In January 1912, he was elected to the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks at the Prague Conference.[1] In March of the same year, Spandaryan was arrested in Baku. Lenin, who considered Spandaryan a "very valuable and prominent worker"[2] supported Spandaryan's father financially after the arrest, since the latter at that time lived in Paris without any means.[3] Spandaryan was sentenced to lifelong exile to Siberia, where he died four years later.[4]

Honors

There is a statue of him in Yerevan. The towns of Spandaryan, Shirak, Spandaryan, Syunik and Surenavan are named after him.

See also

References

  1. ↑ HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION (BOLSHEVIKS), Chapter 5, by J.V. Stalin
  2. ↑ Collected Works, Filth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 52. V.I. Lenin, memo to V.M. MOLOTOV FOR THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C. SECRETARIAT
  3. ↑ Lenin Miscellany XIII, V.I. Lenin, letter to V. A. TER-IOANNISYAN, 5 May 1912
  4. ↑ Spandaryan, Suren Spandarovich



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