- Axel Bakunts
Axel (Aksel) Bakunts ( _hy. Ակսել Բակունց, real name - Alexander Stepani Tevosyan,
June 13 , 1889,Goris -July 8 ,1937 ) was an Armenian prosewriter , film-writer, translator and public activist.He was born in a family of peasants. In 1923 he finished the Agricultural university of
Kharkov and became the senior agronomist ofZangezur region.His most famous works are "Alpiakan manushak" (dedicated to the Arpenik Charents, the first wife of
Yeghishe Charents ), "Lar-Markar", "Namak rusats tagavorin" ("A letter to the Russian czar"), "Kyores" (1935) etc. Bakunts also was a film-writer ("Zangezur", etc.).In 1937 he became a victim of
Stalinism and was executed byfiring squad after a 25-minute trial.A house museum of Bakunts is opened in
Goris ,Armenia .ee also
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* [http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/bse/article/00006/12600.htm?text=%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%86 Bakunts in Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian)]
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