Arshaluys P. Tarverdyan

Arshaluys Poghos Tarverdyan (, born 15 October 1945) is an Armenian scientist and author. He has published 250 scientific works (including 50 describing copyrighted inventions) and 16 monographs, one of which was published in English in Germany by the Hohenheim University Scientific Council. He has also written two textbooks for engineering speciality students.

Tarverdyan graduated from the faculty of Agricultural Machinery of former Armenian Agriculture Institute in 1968. He has been rector of the Armenian National Agrarian University since 1988 and is the Combined Professor of the Chair of material's resistance.

Tarverdyan has studied architectonical, anatomy-morphological structural principles of stems identifying several patterns that had not previously been observed. These patterns are mostly used for calculating and projecting engineering and machine-building structures and details ensuring required hardness and strangeness at minimum expense.

In 2003, the international scientific periodical "Izvestia Armyanskoy selkhozyaystvo akademii" (then "Izvestia Gosudarstvenny agrarnogo universiteta Armenii") was founded, which is published in Russian and English and whose co-founders are the leading agrarian universities of the USA, Sweden, Germany, Russia and Georgia. In the same year, at the suggestion and with the participation of Tarverdyan, the scientific periodical "Izvestia agrarnoy nauki" began to be published in Tbilisi, the founders of which were the leading agrarian universities of Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Germany and other countries.

Scientific acknowledgements and awards

2000 - medal after Anania Shirakatsi 2004 - golden medal from Russian State Agrarian University named after K.A.Timiryazev 2007 - prize and medal after the Socrates 2011 - title of honored scientist on the RA by the decree of the RA President 2011 - medal of Artsakh's Gratitude by the decree of the NKR President