Achikgyozyan was born in the city of Galați , Kingdom of Romania to Hovhannes and Siranuysh from the Ottoman Empire , survivors of the Armenian Genocide . In 1946 , his family resettled in Soviet Armenia . Achikgyozyan graduated from the Yerevan State University in 1960 as an engineer-geologist . From 1961 to 1990 , he worked at the Institute of Geological Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia , earning a PhD in Geology in 1970 . He is an author of over 70 scientific publications on geology and minerals of Armenia
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Simon Achikgyozyan