Vagharsh Vagharshian


Vagharsh Bogdani Vagharshian was a Soviet Armenian actor, director, playwright, public figure and a People's Artist of the USSR.
Vagharshian graduated from a diocese school in Shusha 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.