The photo was taken in honor of the victory in the Great Patriotic War after an evening organized at the State Museum of History of Armenia with participation of the great Armenian poet Avetik Isahakian. In the picture: the staff of the museum, in the center -the great Armenian poet, novelist, literary and public figure, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia (1943), member of the Union of Writers of the USSR (since 1936) Av. Isahakian, to his right Karo Ghafadarian (lithographer, archaeologist, in 1940 he was appointed Director of the State Museum of History of Armenia, Doctor of Historical Sciences (1953)), on the left -Stepan Lisitsian (in 1928-1947 he headed the Department of Ethnography of the SMHA, ethnographer, public figure, historian, translator, publisher, professor (1941), Honored Worker of Sciences of the Armenian SSR (1945)) and Boris Piotrovsky (archaeologist, orientalist, historian, in 1939-1971 he conducted excavations in the Teishebayin Fortress, Tsovinar, Redkig camp, Vanadzor, Aigavan (Ararat district), in 1939-1971 Doctor of Historical Sciences, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Armenian SSR (1968) and USSR Academy of Sciences (1970), in 1964 he was appointed Director of the Hermitage).
Photo by Artashes Vruyr, 1945.
