Hayk Gyulikekhvyan (1886–1951), Armenian literary critic. Ashot Hovhannisyan (1887–1972), Soviet-Armenian statesman and historian. Mikael Arutchian (1897–1961), Soviet-Armenian painter. Ivan Knunyants (1906–1990), Soviet-Armenian chemist. Gevork Kotiantz (1909–1996), Soviet-Armenian painter. Shamsi Badalbeyli (1911–1987), Soviet-Azerbaijani actor and theatre director. Nelson Stepanyan (1913–1944), Soviet-Armenian pilot and Lieutenant–Colonel of the Red Army. Gurgen Boryan (1915–1971), Soviet-Armenian poet and playwright. Seyran Ohanyan (born 1962), Armenian politician and military commander. Aram Manukian (1879–1919), Armenian revolutionary leader Feyzullah Mirza Qajar (1872–1920), prince of Iran's Qajar dynasty. Major general in the Russian Empire and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, later military figure and politician in Iran. Latif Karimov, Azerbaijani carpet designer known for his contributions to a variety of artistic fields.(17 November 1906, Shusha – 1991, Baku) Avan Yuzbashi, (1670s–1735), Armenian military and political leader during Davit Bek uprising (1720s) Molla Panah Vagif, Poet the minister of foreign affairs in the Karabakh Khanate Ibrahim Khalil Khan (1732–1806), Azerbaijani khan of the Karabakh Khanate. Mehdigulu Khan Vefa, lyrical poet of Azerbaijan, lieutenant colonel in the Russian Army, son of a famous Karabakh poet Khurshidbanu Natavan (1855 Shusha – 1900 1900 Tiflis) Mir Hasan Vazirov, Azerbaijani revolutionary and one of the 26 Baku Commissars References Districts of Azerbaijan Azerbaijani administrative divisions of Artsakh