Suren Spandaryan

Suren Spandary Spandaryan (Armenian: Սուրեն Սպանդարի Սպանդարյան; 1882 in Tiflis – 1916 in Krasnoyarsk) was an Armenian revolutionary, literature critic, publicist and one of the founders of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. In January 1912, he was elected to the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks at the Prague Conference.[1] In March of the same year, Spandaryan was arrested in Baku. Lenin, who considered Spandaryan a "very valuable and prominent worker"[2] supported Spandaryan's father financially after the arrest, since the latter at that time lived in Paris without any means.[3] Spandaryan was sentenced to lifelong exile to Siberia, where he died four years later.[4]

Suren Spandaryan
Born1882
Tiflis, Tiflis Governorate, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire
Died1916 (aged 33–34)
Krasnoyarsk, Russian Empire
NationalityArmenian
Occupationliterature critic, publicist and Bolshevik

Honors

There is a statue of him in Yerevan. The towns of Spandaryan, Shirak, Spandaryan, Syunik and Surenavan are named after him.

See also

References
  1. HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION (BOLSHEVIKS), Chapter 5, by J.V. Stalin
  2. Collected Works, Filth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 52. V.I. Lenin, memo to V.M. MOLOTOV FOR THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C. SECRETARIAT
  3. Lenin Miscellany XIII, V.I. Lenin, letter to V. A. TER-IOANNISYAN, 5 May 1912
  4. Spandaryan, Suren Spandarovich


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