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Arshaluys MargaryanPhilologist, literary scholar, Doctor of Philological Sciences
Date of Birth: 13.07.1924
Country:  Armenia |
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Early Life and Education
Arshaluys Yeghishevna Margaryan was born on July 13, 1924, in Yerevan, Armenia. Her father, Yeghishe Zahariyevich Margaryan, was a Red Army commander, and her mother, Antiko (Antigone) Nikolaeva Margaryan, was a mathematics teacher. Arshaluys spent her early years in military kindergartens and attended Pushkin Secondary School from 1932.
In 1937, Arshaluys' uncle, Ashot Margaryan, the Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia, was arrested and executed. Four years later, in October 1941, her father was also arrested. He was released in December 1943 thanks to the intervention of his close friend, Marshal Ivan Khristoforovich Baghramyan. However, Yeghishe returned home severely ill and died in 1954, leaving Arshaluys to care for her paralyzed mother for the next six years.
Scholarly Pursuits and Personal Life
In the late 1950s, Arshaluys met Petros Antonovich Kokinos, a graduate student at Yerevan State University. Petros, who had fled Western Armenia with his family during the Armenian Genocide of 1915, had lived in Athens and worked as a dentist and retoucher before becoming the editor-in-chief of the Armenian newspaper "Glas Naroda" in Greece. He later moved to Moscow and worked for the Executive Committee of the Comintern. In 1938, Petros was arrested and spent 17 years in Gulag labor camps. Upon his return to Yerevan, he entered the graduate program in history at Yerevan State University, where he met Arshaluys. They married in 1967 and had a daughter, Anna.
Academic Career
Arshaluys Margaryan completed her undergraduate studies in philology at Yerevan State University in 1946. She then taught Russian language and literature at the Yerevan Artillery Preparatory School and Secondary School No. 55. In 1949, she entered the graduate program at the Institute of Russian Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). During her time in Leningrad, she also taught literary topics at factories and published several academic articles.
In June 1953, Margaryan successfully defended her dissertation on Marietta Shaginyan's literary work. Her dissertation was published as a book titled "Marietta Shaginyan. Creative Path" in 1956. Upon her return to Yerevan, she taught Soviet literature at the Armenian State Pedagogical Institute named after Kh. Abovyan and the Russian State Pedagogical Institute named after A. Zhdanov. In 1963, she became an associate professor at the Yerevan State Pedagogical Institute of Russian and Foreign Languages named after Valery Bryusov.
In 1969, Margaryan moved to Odessa to care for her husband's health. She taught at the Odessa State University named after I. I. Mechnikov for several years before returning to Yerevan and resuming her teaching at the Pedagogical Institute named after Valery Bryusov. However, illness forced her to retire from teaching.
Legacy
Arshaluys Yeghishevna Margaryan published numerous academic articles and books, including "Marietta Shaginyan. Creative Path" (1956), "A. Shirvanzade and Russian Literature" (1960), and others. She was a mentor to many students who went on to become renowned journalists, literary scholars, and university professors. After her death on July 11, 1987, just two days before her 63rd birthday, she left behind a vast archive of manuscripts, scholarly works, and correspondence with prominent literary figures.
