List of Russian Armenians

This is a list of famous Russian Armenians.

Musicians

• Aram Khachaturian, composer
• Irina Allegrova, pop singer
• Sergey Galoyan, music producer
• Tina Kandelaki, pop singer
• Armen Grigoryan, singer songwriter
• Stas Namin, music producer
• Mikael Tariverdiev, composer
• Avraam Russo, pop singer

Arts

• Ivan Ayvazovsky, painter

Entertainment

• Yevgeny Vakhtangov, theatre actor
• Frunzik Mkrtchyan, actor
• Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, actor
• Garik Martirosyan, entertainer, comedian
• Yevgeny Petrosyan, comedian
• Sergei Parajanov, film director and artist

Journalists

• Margarita Simonyan – Russia Today's chief editor

Sport

• Tigran Petrosian, chess player World champion
• Garry Kasparov (Kasparyan), chess player World champion
• Nikita Simonian, footballer, VP of Russian Football Federation

Politics

• Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet statesman
• Stepan Shahumyan, Soviet bolshevist
• Arthur Chilingarov, Deputy Chairman of State Duma
• Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs

Military

• Ivan Bagramian, Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Ivan Isakov, Admiral of the Fleet in the Soviet Navy
• Ivan Davidovich Lazarev, Imperial Russian general
• Mikhail Tarielovich Loris-Melikov, Imperial Russian general
• Valerian Madatov, Imperial Russian general
• Movses Silikov, Imperial Russian general
• Norat Ter-Grigoryants, Soviet / Armenian general

Science

• Artem Mikoyan, designer of MiG aircraft. Mikoyan's fighters showed 55 world records. The Mikoyan MiG-19 was the first supersonic Soviet jet fighter
• Viktor Ambartsumian, one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics
• Sergei Adian - one of the most prominent soviet mathematicians
• Abraham Alikhanov, Soviet physicist, one of the founders of nuclear physics in USSR, founder of the first nuclear reactor of USSR
• Tateos Agekian, astrophysicist, one of the pioneers of Stellar Dynamics
• Gurgen Askaryan, physicist, inventor of light self focusing
• Boris Babaian, the father of supercomputing in the former Soviet Union and Russia. Second European to hold the Intel Fellow title
• Mikhail Chailakhyan, founder of hormonal theory of plant development
• Andronik Iosifyan, a great scientist and inventor, the father of electromechanics in USSR, designer of the first meteorological satellites of Earth and one of the founders of missilery. Iosifyan was one of the most outstanding figures in the field of military and rocket production. Being the founder and first director of the USSR’s largest scientific research institute of electro-mechanics, Iosifyan for about thirty years was the USSR's “classified” Chief Constructor of electrical equipment of ballistic rockets, nuclear submarines and spacecrafts. One of his most important inventions, noncontact synchronized transmissions, considered a revolution in technology
• Semyon Kirlian, founder of Kirlian Photography, discovered that living matter is emitting energy fields.
• Ivan Knuniants, chemist, Major General, four times an awardee of the USSR State Award. In chemical science he introduced historical changes and significantly contributed to the advancement of Soviet Chemistry. Founder of Soviet school of fluorocarbon's chemistry, one of major developers of Soviet chemical weapons program
• Alexander Merzhanov, acknowledged leader in the scientific field of combustion and explosion, inventor of the Self-propagating high temperature synthesis (SHS)
• Alexander Kemurdzhian, designer of the first rovers to explore another world: first moon rovers and first mars rovers. Founder of the space transport engineering
• Alexander Narinyani, father of soviet artificial intelligence (AI), author of novel theory involving the conception of sub-defined models, founder of the new scientific field - constraint programming
• Leon Orbeli, founder of the evolutionary physiology
• Artem Sarkisyan, a pioneer scientist in numerical modelling of ocean circulation , one of the world's leading oceanologists
• Norair Sisakian, one of the founders of space biology, pioneer in biochemistry of sub-cell structures and technical biochemistry. Was one of the first scientists in the mid-1940s to start the studies of plant cell structures. Author of an absolutely new concept of chloroplasts as polyfunctional cell structures. Was the first soviet scientist to work in UNESCO.

See also

• Armenians in Russia
• List of Armenians