Background
VAGARSHYAN, Vagarsh was born on February 14, 1894 in Shusha. Son of a baker.
Actor Stage director and playwright
VAGARSHYAN, Vagarsh was born on February 14, 1894 in Shusha. Son of a baker.
Graduate Tiflis Business College.
From 1915 with Arm Touring Company. Performed with and managed companies in Krasnodar, Rostov and other North Caucasian towns. From 1923 actor and stage director, 1st Arm Stale Theater, Yerevan (now Sundukyan Theater).
1941-1944 artistic director of a theater. Instructor, from 1946 professor, Yerevan Theatrical Institute. Deputy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet of 1st convocation.
Deputy, Arm Supreme Soviet of 2nd—4th convocations. Theater in Goris named for him. Roles: Belogubov in Ostrovskiy’s Dokhodnoye mesto (A Lucrative Post) (1929).
Aslan-ami in Vagarshyan’s “In the Ring” (1930). Figaro (1933); Yegor in Gorky's Yegor Bulychov i drugiye (Yegor Bulychov and Company) (1933). Tikhon in Ostrovskiy’s Groza (The Storm) (1935).
Polezhayev in Rakhmanov’s Bespokoynaya starost, (Restless Old Age) (1938). Lenin in Pogodin’s Chelovek s ruzh’yom (The Manitoba with a Gun) (1938). Suren in Shirvanzade’s Iz-za chesti (Foreign Honor’s Sake) (1939).
Suren Spandaryan in Gulakyan’s "Great Friendship” (1939). Gagik in Demirchan’s “My Native Land” (1940). Miron in “Front” (1942).
Hamlet (1942); Smith in Simonov’s Russkiy vopros (The Russian Question) (1947). Lavrov in Romashov’s Velikaya sila (The Great Force) (1948). Firs in Chekhov's Vishnyovyy sad (The Cherry Orchard) (1951), et cetera
Productions: Dostigayev i drugiye (Dostigayev and Company) (1934). “Vassa Zhcleznova” (1937). “Kabale und Liebe” (1938).
Ovchinnikov’s Derzaniye (Daring) (1950), et cetera
Communist Party member from 1944.