Tachat Sahakyan

Tatshat Mkrtich Sahakyan (; July 8, 1916 – January 16, 1999) was an Armenian historian, Armenologist, teacher, professor, “Excellence in public education”, Member of the CPSU. Participant of the Great Patriotic War.

Biography Tatshat Sahakyan was born in 1916 in the region of the village of Brnakot, Sisian. Nicholas Adontz, a relative and Russian Byzantine scholar and Armenologist, also from the village of Brnakot, suggested the baby be named Tatshat, in honor of Tatshat Gntuni, a martyr of the Battle of Avarayr (451).

Little Tatshat lost his father at the age of two. In 1936, he graduated with honors from Sisian Secondary School, and in 1940, also with honors, from the Faculty of History of the Khachatur Abovyan Pedagogical Institute.

In 1940, he was drafted into the Red Army for military service. On the day the war began - June 22, 1941 - the 4th artillery regiment of the Kyiv Special Military District was stationed in the city of Brody, and was attacked by German troops. Sahakyan served in the regiment as deputy political instructor and was wounded in one of the offensives in August 1941. After recovery, he returned to serve in the Transcaucasian Military District – first in Tbilisi, and then, from February 1942, in the rifle regiment of the Armenian division. In 1942, Sahakyan joined the Communist Party. In September 1942, he took part in battles in the Tuapse region as part of the 408th Armenian division. He was wounded in one of the fierce battles that took place in the Tuapse–Goykh region and in the Ostrovsky Gorge, and following treatment he was demobilized. He was awarded Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, medals “For Courage”, “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945”, as well as the badge of “Excellence in Public Education” and the diploma of the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armenian SSR.

On November 29, 1991, taking into account his many years of fruitful scientific and pedagogical activity, the Department of History of the Armenian People awarded him the title of Professor.

Tatshat Sahakyan was engaged in active social activities.

He died on January 16, 1999, in Yerevan.

Tatshat Sahakyan’s scientific work “The Peasant Revolt in Syunik in the 10th Century” was published in French in Paris in 1964. Medal “For Courage”

The author of the memorial plaque is architect Ashot Sahakyan, member of the Union of Architects of the USSR (NGO “ArmAuthor”, No. 08/5830, 02/03/2022), sculptor Kamsar Vardanyan, master masons Narek Vardanyan and Arthur Vardanyan.