the Erebuni Reserve. She prevented the Artanish Reserve from being transferred to management under the military unit of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia, where it would have been used to construct a military facility. Since 2002, she has been a consultant in the two major organizations for nature protection: The Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC) and WWF participating in numerous projects on the study, conservation and sustainable use of natural resources of Armenia. In 2016, in collaboration with O. Fragman-Sapir and K. Manvelyan, the book "Green Armenia" was published with notes and illustrations of representatives of Armenian flora. Personal life During her student years, she traveled alone, with a herbarium bag on her shoulder, walking on foot throughout the Caucasus discovering the region with a very rich flora. Later on her travels took her throughout Great Britain, the Baltic states, the Carpathians, Central Asia, Iran and Kamchatka. She spent 5 months in the Indian Ocean on the research vessel "Acad. Vernadsky" in 1981. A year later, she participated in the expedition organized by A. Cronquist in the United States together with A. L. Takhtajan. In 1980, in Spain (Seville), she participated for the first time in the conference on the study of the Mediterranean flora OPTIMA. In 1989, she was elected a member of the Executive Council of the organization. Gabrielian was friends with Armenian artists such as Martiros Saryan (a portrait of her from his brush is kept in the National Gallery of Armenia), Minas Avetisyan, and Haroutiun Galentz. Scientific discoveries/publications Selected plants named by Gabrielian Amaryllidaceae Galanthus artjuschenkoae Gabrieljan in Fl. Rastitel'nost' Rast. Res. Arm. 12: 13. 1999. Asteraceae Amberboa gubanovii Gabrieljan in Takhtajania 1: 37. 2011. Asteraceae Amberboa takhtajanii Gabrieljan in Takhtajania 1: 36. 2011. Asteraceae Carthamus tamamschjanae Gabrieljan in Fl., Rast. i Rast. Res. Arm. SSR 10: 21. 1987. Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions Honours and awards Medal of the XII International Botanical Congress, Leningrad, 1975 Certificate of Merit of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1978 Higher (Komarov) prize of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1984 Gold Medal of Valiant Labour of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, 1986 Honorary vice-president and silver medal of XIV International Botanical Congress, Berlin, 1987 George Soros's Foundation scholarship, Biodiversity, 1992 Honorary Silver Plaque of Herbarium Mediterraneum Foundation, Palermo, 2001 Honorary Diploma and Prize of Russian Party of Self-government of Working People,