Yervand Lalayan

Who was Yervand Lalayan?

Yervand Lalayan, ethnographer, archeologist, folklorist. He was also the founder and the first director of the History Museum of Armenia from 1919 to 1927.

In 1885 he ended Tiflis's Nersisyan School and work in Akhaltsikhe and Akhalkalaki, and Alexandrapol as a teacher. In 1894 ending the faculty of social sciences in the University of Geneva. Receiving the level of Candidate of sociological sciences, he worked in the Mkhitarians of Venice. Returning to Armenia in 1895-1897 he worked in the diocesan school of Shusha. Here consolidating the outstanding scientists