School :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

School 1921 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Artzvashen

Historical Introduction
1907 y․

Beginning with 1907, some attempts were made to provide Artzvashen’s population with education.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 554.

1915 — 1917 yy․

Between 1915 and 1917, Archimandrite Yeghishe and a married couple (a certain Hovsep and his wife Sofia) carried out that work, the former teaching Religion and Russian, and the latter the Armenian language there. Later Hovsep and Sofia’s pupils, Herik Dallakian, Rafael Sardarian and others, founded their own small private schools in the village.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 554.

1918 y․

In 1918/1919, a one-year secondary school of males functioned in Artzvashen.

Khudoyan, S. The East Armenian Schools between 1830 and 1920, p. 485.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 554.

1921 y․

In 1921 a state school opened there, its building having been erected by Zemstvo Russian Company. In the autumn of 1922, M. Astvatzatrian was appointed headmaster there. The institution had a children’s theatre which is known to have staged a number of literary works, including a short story entitled Gikor by prominent Armenian writer Hovhannes Tumanian. Later another two schools opened in Artzvashen, the pupils of those three institutions totaling 1,500 together. In the subsequent decades, however, their number was reduced due to mass emigration so that only a single school functioned in the village on the eve of its fall.

See Ashot Petrossian’s unpublished article (we are extending our gratitude to him for willingly putting it at our disposal).
Ayunts, L. Michael Astvatzatrian: A Patriot and a Defender of His Homeland. Yerevan, 2000, pp. 59-60.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 554.