Norat Ter-Grigoryants was born and educated in the city of Vladikavkaz in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union , where his Armenian family had come in the 1920s after fleeing from the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire . His parents were from Erzurum Province ( part of the Ottoman Empire ) and Kars ( an Armenian province in the Russian Empire annexed by the Turks in the aftermath of World War I )
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Norat Ter-Grigoryants