Hmayak Siras was born Hmayak Sahaki Voskanian on 15 Feburary 1902 in Karakilisa , a small town in Alashkert municipality in the historical region of Western Armenia ( now part of Turkey ) . His parents were Sahak and Mariza Voskanian . He was the first of five children . His parents encouraged his love of literature , art , and music . He studied at a local school until the age of fourteen , when the Armenian Genocide forced his family to flee to Tbilisi , the capital of Georgia . In 1921 , Siras returned to Armenia with his family . He enrolled at Yerevan State University , where he graduated from the History and Literature Department in 1925 . He graduated from the MSU Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University in 1932
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Hmayak Siras