Koryun Nahapetyan (; ; 1926 in Leninakan – 1999 in Moscow) was an Armenian-Russian painter-nonconformist, sociologist, philosopher and public activist, a participant of the Bulldozer Exhibition. He was a member of UNESCO International Federation of Painters. Biography Nahapetyan was born in Hatsik village, near Leninakan, Soviet Armenia. In 1950 he moved to Moscow and worked there in the ZiL factory. Nahapetyan finished the art school in Leninakan and Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry, entered the post-graduate courses at the VNIITE. In 1978 he founded the "20 Moscow painters" movement. In 1988 he became one of the founders of Karabakh Committee of Moscow. In 1999 Nahapetyan was killed in his studio. External links https://web.archive.org/web/20170516023454/http://m-mos.ru/2008/01/34.htm http://www.museum.ru/N27429 Armenian painters Russian people of Armenian descent 20th-century Russian painters Russian male painters Soviet painters 1926 births 1999 deaths People from Gyumri Armenian people murdered abroad People murdered in Russia 20th-century Russian male artists Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry alumni