About Martiros Saryan
Martiros Saryan was an Armenian painter, People's Artist of the USSR (1960), member of the USSR Academy of Fine Arts (1947), president of the Artists' Union of Soviet Armenia (1945-1951), the founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting.
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Awards & Honors
Lenin Prize
Order of Lenin
Hero of Socialist Labour
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of the Badge of Honour
Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"
People's Painter of the USSR
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
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People's Artist of the Armenian SSR
Armenian SSR State Prize
Stalin Prize, 2nd degree
honorary citizen of Gyumri
