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M. Soukias Manasserian – engineer and inventor. Karen Manvelyan – biologist and environmentalist, director of the World Wildlife Fund in Armenia. Benjamin Markarian (1913–1985) – astrophysicist, known for Markarian's Chain. Cyrus Melikian, (1920–2008) – coffee industry pioneer, inventor of coffee vending machines.
Kemurdzhian, Alexander (October 4, 1921 -February 25, 2003): Russian. Kemurdzhian designed Lunokhod 1, the first space-exploration rover, which roamed on the Moon in 1970. ^ Harvey, Brian (2007). Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration.
This is a list of notable Armenians. 1st row: Hayk • Artaxias I • Tigranes the Great • Trdat III • Gregory the Illuminator. 2nd row: Mesrop Mashtots • Vardan Mamikonian • Movses Khorenatsi • Anania Shirakatsi • Grigor Narekatsi. 3rd row: Levon II • Toros Roslin • Momik • Sayat Nova • Khachatur Abovyan.
The Matenadaran (Armenian: Մատենադարան), officially the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, [a] is a museum, repository of manuscripts, and a research institute in Yerevan, Armenia. It is the world's largest repository of Armenian manuscripts. [5]
Armenian studies. Armenian studies or Armenology (Armenian: հայագիտություն, pronounced [hɑjɑɡituˈtʰjun]) is a field of humanities covering Armenian history, language and culture. The emergence of modern Armenian studies is associated with the foundation of the Catholic Mechitarist order in the early 18th century.
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Urartu (Akkadian: ú-ra-áš-tu) is mentioned in the Babylonian Map of the World. [ 16 ] Various names were given to the geographic region and the polity that emerged in the region. Urartu/Ararat: The name Urartu (Armenian: Ուրարտու; Assyrian: māt Urarṭu; [ 6 ] Babylonian: Urashtu; Hebrew: אֲרָרָטArarat) comes from Assyrian ...
The history of Armenia covers the topics related to the history of the Republic of Armenia, as well as the Armenian people, the Armenian language, and the regions of Eurasia historically and geographically considered Armenian. [1] Armenia is located between Eastern Anatolia and the Armenian highlands, [1] surrounding the Biblical mountains of ...