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During World War II 500,000 Armenians served in the war from Soviet Union, 108 Armenians honoured Hero of Soviet Union, Armenians have 5 Marshals, 8 Colonel generals, 31 Lieutenant generals, 109 Major general, 1 Admiral, 3 Vice Admirals [5]
Soviet Union, Armenia Astronomy Stellar association (1947) [31] [32] Cyrus Melikian [33] United States Engineering, electrical Coffee vending machine (1947; with Lloyd Rudd) [34] [35] [36] Armen Takhtajan [37] Soviet Union, Russia, Armenia Botany Takhtajan system (1950) [38] Sergey Mergelyan [39] Soviet Union Mathematics Mergelyan's theorem ...
Mary Ellen Iskenderian, CEO and president of Women's World Banking and former senior executive of World Bank; Steven A. Kandarian, former executive vice president and chief investment officer of MetLife; Paul Kazarian, hedge fund manager
This is a list of notable Armenian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.Armenian Americans are people born or raised in the United States, or who reside there, with origins in the country known as Armenia, which ranges from the Caucasian mountain range to the Armenian plateau.
Armenians (Armenian: հայեր, romanized: hayer, ) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Armenian highlands of West Asia. [44] [45] [46] Armenians constitute the main population of Armenia and constituted the main population of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh until the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh and the subsequent flight of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians. [47]
Valmar – Armenian painter; People's artist of the Republic of Armenia (2015) Vahramian, Vartan – musician, painter Vardapetyan, Armen – jeweler, artist, sculpture; Armenian folk artist of applied art
Mesrop Mashtots – invented the Armenian alphabet c. 405 AD, which was a fundamental step in strengthening Armenian national identity; Soukias Manasserian – engineer and inventor; Karen Manvelyan – biologist and environmentalist, director of the World Wildlife Fund in Armenia
The need for humanitarian relief to the Armenian homeland, as well as outreach to refugees settling throughout the US (concentrated in New York and Los Angeles), led to the creation of the Fund for Armenian Relief—through which the church delivers material and medical aid to Armenia. [142] Today, more than 120 Armenian parish communities ...