Semyon Semyonovich Abamelik-Lazarev

Semyon Semyonovich Abamelik-Lazarev, Semen Semenovich Abamelek-Lazarev or Abamelik-Lazaryan (1857, Moscow - 1916, Kislovodsk, burried in Saint-Petersburg) was a Russian-Armenian principal, archaeologist and geologist, a member of Russian Geographical Union, the honorary supervisor of the Lazarian Seminary in Moscow.

He finished the historio-philological faculty of Saint-Petersburg University. In 1882 he discovered and researched the so-called "Palmirian tarif" inscription, then researched Jerash greco-roman monument in Palestine and published results in two books. He was also a successful entrepreneur and opened factories of iron in Ural.

His ville ("Ville Abamelik") in Rome was owned by the embassy of USSR.

ources

*"Armenian Concise Encyclopedia", Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdian, Yerevan, 1990, Vol. 1, p. 8

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