David Fyodorovich Oistrakh was a Soviet Russian violinist, violist, and conductor. He was also Professor at the Moscow Conservatory, People's Artist of the USSR (1953), and Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1960).
Igor Aleksandrovich Moiseyev was a Soviet and Russian ballet master, dancer, choreographer and pedagogue. Moiseyev was widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of character dance, a dance style similar to folk dance but with more professionalism and theatrics.
Aleksey Vladimirovich Batalov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, film director, screenwriter, and pedagogue acclaimed for his portrayal of noble and positive characters. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1976 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1989.
Boris Khristoforovich Parsadanian was a Soviet Armenian and Estonian composer, violinist, and arts administrator.
Nikolay Aleksandrovich Annenkov was the longest-lived People's Artist of the USSR before Igor Moiseyev and Vladimir Zeldin.
Igor Arkadyevich Zaitsev is a Russian grandmaster of chess.
Football Club Ararat Yerevan, commonly known as Ararat Yerevan, is an Armenian professional football club based in Yerevan that plays in the Armenian Premier League.
Armenians in Russia or Russian Armenians are one of the country's largest ethnic minorities and the largest Armenian diaspora community outside Armenia. The 2010 Russian census recorded 1,182,388 Armenians in the country. Various figures estimate that the ethnic Armenian population in Russia is actually more than 2 million. Armenians populate various regions, including Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Krasnodar Krai in the North Caucasus and as far as Vladivostok in the East.
Levon Ambartsumian is an Armenian classical violinist and conductor. Levon Ambartsumian currently lives and works in Athens, Georgia, United States.
Khoren Oganesian, also known as Khoren Hovhannisyan, is a former Armenian and Soviet football player who played as a midfielder and currently a football manager and coach. He was awarded the Master of Sport of the USSR, International Class title in 1976.
Arno Harutyuni Babajanian was a Soviet and Armenian composer and pianist. He was made a People's Artist of the USSR in 1971
Tigran Edmondovich Keosayan is a Russian film director, actor and television presenter. He is a winner of film festival prizes including TEFI, Kinotavr and Window to Europe Film Festival 2001.
Aleksandr Fyodorovich Tarkhanov is a Russian football coach and a former Soviet player.
Igor Petrovich Veselkin was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, scenographer, stage designer, and art teacher, professor of the Repin Institute of Arts, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg. He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, and regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
The year 1958 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
The year 1971 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
The year 1990 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
The year 1943 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
Yuri Grigorii Khachaturov is an Armenian general. He formerly served as the Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and as Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia (2008–2016).
Leon Armenovich Takhtajan is a Russian mathematical physicist of Armenian descent, currently a professor of mathematics at the Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, and a leading researcher at the Euler International Mathematical Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
