Harutyunyan was born in the Ottoman Empire , in the town of Van , but he and his family were forced to flee into Russian territory during the Armenian Genocide . They settled first in Tbilisi and then in Yerevan . In 1946 , he obtained his Ph.D. , and then Doctor of Science in architecture . In 1964 , he became a professor of history . In 1996 he was elected Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia . In Armenia , he was also president of the Society for Protection of Historical Monuments
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Varazdat Harutyunyan