Education
Born in Yerevan, he entered the Philology department of University of Yerevan in 1951 and graduated in 1956.
Born in Yerevan, he entered the Philology department of University of Yerevan in 1951 and graduated in 1956.
He was appointed as the Kurdish studies chair of University of Leningrad in 1957. He worked for three years at the Radio of Yerevan as its first Kurdish anchor. He visited Iraqi Kurdistan in 1958, where he conducted research on the Kurdish language.
His archive contains more than 100,000 Kurdish proverbs many of which are still unpublished.