Komitas Pantheon-Park is located in Yerevan

Yerevan

Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...

's Shengavit district

Shengavit District

Shengavit is a district of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. It is situated southwest of the city centre and consists of the following 7 parts: The South-Western district, Nerkin Shengavit, Verin Shengavit, Nerkin Charbakh, Verin Charbakh, Noragavit, Aeratsia. Garegin Nzhdehi square and metro...

, on the right side of the main Arshakunyats Avenue. Many outstanding figures of Armenia's artistic world are buried here, including Komitas

Komitas Vardapet

In 1950s his manuscripts were also transferred from Paris to Yerevan.Badarak was first printed in 1933 in Paris and first recorded onto a digital media in 1988 in Yerevan. In collecting and publishing so many folk songs, he saved the cultural heritage of Western Armenia that otherwise would have...

 (1869-1935), one of Armenia’s great composers. His work came to an abrupt and tragic end in 1915; he was so disturbed by the Turkish government's horrific slaughter

Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, by Armenians, as the Great Crime—refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I...

 of the Armenians

Armenians

Armenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....

, that he became insane. He died in Paris, where the best French doctors were unable to cure him.
The Pantheon is also the site of the graves of composers Romanos and Spiridon Melikyan, Aram Khachaturian

Aram Khachaturian

Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...

, poets Hovhannes Hovhannesyan, Shushanik Kurghinian

Shushanik Kurghinian

Shushanik Kurghinian was an Armenian writer who became a catalyst in the development of socialist and feminist poetry. She gave voice to the voiceless and saw her role as a poet as profoundly political. Her first poem was published in 1899 in Taraz, and in 1900 her first short story appeared in...

, and Avetik Isahakyan

Avetik Isahakyan

Avetik Isahakyan , Ghazarapat, near Aleksandropol, current Gyumri, Russian Empire – October 17, 1957, Yerevan) was a prominent Armenian lyric poet, writer, academian and public activist.-Biography:...

, writers William Saroyan

William Saroyan

William Saroyan was an Armenian American dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is the center of Armenian-American life in California in his native Fresno.-Early years:...

, Alexander Shirvanzade

Alexander Shirvanzade

Alexander Shirvanzade was an Armenian playwright and novelist...

, Vrtanes Papazyan, Nairi Zaryan

Nairi Zarian

Nairi Zarian was a Soviet Armenian poet and writer, the chairman of Armenian SSR Committee for the Defense of Peace....

 and Suren Kocharyan, historian and Academician Leo, artists Martiros Saryan

Martiros Saryan

Martiros Saryan was an Armenian painter.He was born into an Armenian family in Nor Nakhijevan . In 1895, aged 15, he completed the Nakhichevan school and from 1897 to 1904 studied at the Moscow School of Arts, including in the workshops of Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin...

, Mariam Aslamazian

Mariam Aslamazian

Mariam Arshaki Aslamazian was a Soviet painter, recognized as a People's Artist of the Armenian SSR . She was the sister of painter Yeranuhi Aslamazian...

, Hovhannes Abelyan, Hrachia Nersisyan and Vahram Papazyan and architects Toros Toramanyan and Alexander Tamanyan.

Reconstruction in 2005

The Komitas Pantheon which was to be subject of reconstruction three years ago has finally caught the attention of the authorities. 96 million drams have been allotted from the state budget for reconstruction works.
The works started on June and they will finish in October, according to the director of the Pantheon Grisha Hunanyan. The construction is realized according to the project of Stepan Qyurqchyan.
On both sides of the garden there will be gates and the entrance will be guarded to prevent robberies. By the way, during the reconstruction special places will be allotted in the walls for cinerary urns.
After the reconstruction the irrigation problem will also be solved.

Burials

Here is some of the famous burials:

Name	Date	Occupation
Vardan Ajemian Vardan Ajemian Vardan Mkrtchi Ajemian was a Soviet Armenian theatral director and actor, People's Artist of USSR . Hero of Socialist Labour .He studied in Yerevan and Moscow. In 1928 he founded the Second Armenian State Theatre , in 1939 he moved to Yerevan Sundukian Theatre and became its artistic director...	1905–1977	theatral director and actor
Mariam Aslamazian Mariam Aslamazian Mariam Arshaki Aslamazian was a Soviet painter, recognized as a People's Artist of the Armenian SSR . She was the sister of painter Yeranuhi Aslamazian...	1907–2006	painter
Karen Demirchyan Karen Demirchyan Karen Demirchyan was a Soviet Armenian communist, First Secretary of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1974 to 1988 and later independent politician...	1932–1999	communist and later the leader of People's Party of Armenia
Avetik Isahakyan Avetik Isahakyan Avetik Isahakyan , Ghazarapat, near Aleksandropol, current Gyumri, Russian Empire – October 17, 1957, Yerevan) was a prominent Armenian lyric poet, writer, academian and public activist.-Biography:...	1875–1957	lyric poet, writer, academian and public activist
Silva Kaputikyan Silva Kaputikyan Sirvard Barunaki "Silva" Kaputikyan was a 20th century prominent Armenian poet, writer, academian and public activist....	1919–2006	poet
Aram Khachaturian Aram Khachaturian Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...	1903–1978	composer
Sero Khanzadyan Sero Khanzadyan Sero Nikolai Khanzadyan was an Armenian writer.-Childhood:Sero Khanzadyan was born in 1915 to the family of a ploughman in the town of Goris which is located in the rough mountains of Zangezur, where every bit of fertile ground is taken in a battle against solid rocks and burning sun.Little Sero’s...	1916–1998	writer
Komitas Komitas Vardapet In 1950s his manuscripts were also transferred from Paris to Yerevan.Badarak was first printed in 1933 in Paris and first recorded onto a digital media in 1988 in Yerevan. In collecting and publishing so many folk songs, he saved the cultural heritage of Western Armenia that otherwise would have...	1869–1935	priest, composer, singer
Shushanik Kurghinian Shushanik Kurghinian Shushanik Kurghinian was an Armenian writer who became a catalyst in the development of socialist and feminist poetry. She gave voice to the voiceless and saw her role as a poet as profoundly political. Her first poem was published in 1899 in Taraz, and in 1900 her first short story appeared in...	1876–1927	poet
Romanos Melikian Romanos Melikian Romanos Melikian was an Armenian composer.He finished the Rostov Musical College, then the classes of M. Ippolitov-Ivanov and B. Yavorsky. In 1914 he graduated from Saint Petersburg Conservatory...	1883–1935	composer
Mher Mkrtchyan	1930–1993	actor
Hrachia Nersisyan Hrachia Nersisyan Hrachia Nersisyan was a Soviet-Armenian film actor.Nersisyan was born in Nicomedia, Ottoman Empire and studied in Istanbul. He moved to Yerevan, Armenia in 1923, and soon became a film actor....	1895–1961	film actor
Vrtanes Papazian Vrtanes Papazian Vrtanes Mesrop Papazian , an Armenian writer, public-political and cultural activist, literary critic, editor, literature historian, teacher and translator.-Biography:Vrtanes Papazian was born in the city Van in 1866...	1866–1920	writer, public-political and cultural activist
Sergei Parajanov	1924–1990	film director and artist
Hamo Sahyan Hamo Sahyan - Biography :He finished the Baku Pedagogical institute in 1939. In 1941 he returned to Yerevan, then served in the Soviet Navy during World War II. He worked in "Avangard" and "Vozni" newspapers, edited "Grakan tert". The first collection of his poems was published in 1946. Sahyan was awarded by...	1914–1993	poet and translator
William Saroyan William Saroyan William Saroyan was an Armenian American dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is the center of Armenian-American life in California in his native Fresno.-Early years:...	1908–1981	dramatist and author
Martiros Saryan Martiros Saryan Martiros Saryan was an Armenian painter.He was born into an Armenian family in Nor Nakhijevan . In 1895, aged 15, he completed the Nakhichevan school and from 1897 to 1904 studied at the Moscow School of Arts, including in the workshops of Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin...	1880–1972	painter
Hovhannes Shiraz Hovhannes Shiraz Hovhannes Shiraz was a notable Armenian poet.- Biography :He was born Hovhannes Karapetyan in the city of Alexandropol, then part of the Russian Empire . His first work called Beginning of Spring was published in 1935...	1915–1984	poet
Alexander Shirvanzade Alexander Shirvanzade Alexander Shirvanzade was an Armenian playwright and novelist...	1858–1935	playwright and novelist
Alexander Tamanian Alexander Tamanian Alexander Tamanian was a Russian-born Armenian neoclassical architect, who is remembered today for his work in the city of Yerevan.Born in the city of Yekaterinodar in 1878 in the family of a banker. He graduated from the St Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1904. His works portrayed sensitive and...	1878–1936	neoclassical architect
Vahan Terian Vahan Terian Vahan Terian was an eminent Georgian born Armenian poet, lyrist and public activist. He is a famous poet known for his sorrowful, romantic poems, the most famous of which are still read and sung in their musical versions by people of all ages.- Biography :...	1885–1920	poet, lyrist and public activist
Stepan Zoryan	1835–1888	writer

External links

• ArmenianPages.com — Komitas Park, . . . the Pantheon of Prominent Art Figures