Researcher Samvel Karapetyan passed away

Panorama, Armenia
Feb 27 2020

Armenian historian, researcher specializing in the study of the historical monuments of Armenia, Samvel Karapetyan passed away, Vahe Lorents, expert in tourism informed on social media.

Karapetyan is mostly known for surveying and cataloguing thousands of artifacts of Armenian history and architecture during the course of more than two decades. Serving as the head of the Yerevan branch of the NGO Research on Armenian Architecture, he headed numerous groups of Armenian specialists to old Armenian villages in Iran, Georgia and Turkey to document the historical Armenian monuments and assess their condition. He is the author of numerous scientific publications.

In 2004, Karapetyan was awarded with Mesrop Mashtots medal of the Artsakh Republic and in 2007 – with the Armenian Presidential Humanitarian Sciences Prize for his work in literature.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS