Harutyun Shahrikyan

Harutiun Shahrigian (; 1860–1915) was an Armenian politician, soldier, lawyer, and author.

Better known by nicknames Atom, , Nitra , he had a prominent role in the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) and was also a member of the Armenian National Assembly, a lawyer and author of publications on the Armenian Question. He was a victim of the Armenian genocide.

Biography Haruiun Shahrigian was born in 1860 in Shabin-Karahisar, Sivas Vilayet in the Ottoman Empiretoday in Turkey's Giresun Province.

Shahrigian graduated from Galatasaray High School located in Constantinople. He continued his studies at the University of Constantinople, graduating with a degree in law in 1880.

He settled in Trabzon where he worked as a lawyer from 1889 to 1895.

"The future, then, lies not in fusion – assimilation – but in a policy of unity, or more correctly, in a policy of pluralistic unity. Erase variety in nature, in the universe, make the universe uniform, and you will have erased the beauty of nature, its harmony, its life. Variety in nature, which seems to put every element at odds with another, actually, through harmony, forms the greatness of the perpetual motion of the universe." — Harutiun Shahrigian in Mer Havadke (English: Our Credo)

After the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 he moved to Constantinople where he participated in the Armenian National Assembly representing the district of Scutari.

Publications Our Credo, Constantinople, 1910 Мarriage Questions, legal and social character, Constantinople, 1912 History of Decline of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, 1913 Question of Reforms, Constantinople, 1914 National Constitution, Constantinople, 1914