Rafayel Yeranosyan - “Pahlevan” at AGBU Performing Art Center in Pasadena, CA, March 14 2025, (818) 265-0506 
The Armenian American Museum Young Leaders Council in Glendale, CA. December 13th - 15th at 7:00 PM. Call: (818) 926-8108 Nairi Zarian
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Nairi Zarian (real name - Hayastan Yeghiazarian, Armenian: Նաիրի Զարյան, December 31, 1900, Kharakonis, near Van, Ottoman Empire - July 12, 1969, Yerevan) was an Armenian poet and writer, the chairman of the Armenian SSR Committee for the Defense of Peace.
A survivor of the Armenian Genocide, in 1915 he moved to Armenia. He was a graduate of Yerevan State University. In the poem "Rock of Rushan" (1930) he showed "the socialistic resistance of an Armenian village". His novel Hatsavan (1937—47) is dedicated to the process of collectivization. During World War II Zarian published a large number of poems and notes, in 1943 finishing his poem "The voice of Homeland". In 1946 his historical tragedy Ara Geghetsik was published.
