Isahak Alikhanyan

Isaak Semyonovich Alikhanian (; ; 7 February 1876 – 15 March 1946) was an Armenian actor and theatre director. A leading figure of Armenian theatre in the Caucasus, he was named a People's Artist of the Armenian SSR in 1923 and a People's Artist of the Georgian SSR in 1941.

Early life and education Alikhanian was born on 7 February 1876 in Dusheti, then in the Tiflis Governorate of the Russian Empire. In 1921 he was one of the organisers of the First State Theatre of Armenia in Yerevan (now the Sundukyan Theatre), and from 1922 he worked at the Armenian theatre in Tbilisi (now the Petros Adamian Tbilisi State Armenian Drama Theatre) until the end of his life.

Personal life Alikhanian was the father of the geneticist Sos Alikhanian. He died in Tbilisi on 15 March 1946 and was buried at the Khojivank Pantheon; a street in the Avlabari district of Tbilisi is named after him.