Sergei Melkumyan
Sergei Avanes Melkumyan (born 1931 in Martuni, Karabagh) is a doctor of Geography, professor, and academician at the International Ecological Academy.
Melkumyan was born in 1931 in Chartar village of Martuni region. He graduated from the Department of Geography at Yerevan State University. During the period from 1962 until 1970, he worked in Scientific-Research Institute of Stone and Silicates of the Soviet Union. Melkumyan taught at Yerevan State University for five years. He has been a professor of Yerevan Institute of National Economy since 1975. He is the author of 220 scientific works devoted to the rationalization and utilization of natural resources and the problems of nature protection.