Education
Moscow Conservatory.
Moscow Conservatory.
Born in Novorossiysk, Russian SFSR, to a Russian father and an Armenian mother, Fontikov moved to Yerevan, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1943 and lived there until 1962, when he began his studies at the Moscow Conservatory. Fontikov spent his life between Armenia and Russia and spoke both Armenian and Russian fluently. His operatic talents and his deep sonorous voice made him very famous throughout the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, and Eastern Europe.
Refusing to perform outside the Eastern Block, Fontikov was limited to only a few performances a year, but his popularity remained.
He died in 1987 in a car accident outside of Yerevan.