Vagharsh Vagharshian

Vagharsh Bogdani Vagharshian (14 February 1894 – 6 May 1959) was a Soviet and Armenian actor, director, playwright and public figure. People's Artist of the USSR (1954).

Vagharshian graduated from a diocese school in Shushi and then worked with an Armenian theater crews in Baku, Azerbaijan. Since 1923 he performed at the Sundukyan State Academic Theatre. In 1941–1944 he was the artistic director of the theater and starred in a number of films. Since 1944 he taught acting at the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography. He was a deputy of the Supreme Council of USSR. The Song of First Love (1958) was Vagharshian's last film in which he acted.

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1894 births

1959 deaths

20th-century Armenian male actors

Actors from Shusha

Communist Party of the Soviet Union members

First convocation members of the Soviet of the Union

Academic staff of the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography

People's Artists of Armenia

People's Artists of the USSR

Recipients of the Stalin Prize

Recipients of the Order of Lenin

Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Ethnic Armenian male actors

Soviet Armenians

Armenian dramatists and playwrights

Armenian male film actors

Armenian male stage actors

Armenian theatre directors

Soviet dramatists and playwrights

Soviet male film actors

Soviet male stage actors

Soviet theatre directors