KHACHATUR ABOVYAN ARMENIAN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Yuri Hovhannisyan, a literary critic and philologist, Associate Professor at the Chair of New and Modern Armenian Literature and its Teaching Methods at ASPU, died at the age of 80. His career was closely associated with the Faculty of Philology since the 1970s.

In his lectures, he dwelt on different phases of the history of Armenian Literature, from folklore to modern times. He knew the weight and effect of his speech, different cognitive aspects of literature, which he liked to combine and present to different generations of students in a simple way.

The literary critic always oriented his students towards freedom and beauty, had inclination for literary sources, revealed subtle details and connected them with the general logic of the material.

Although in the last two years Yuri Hovhannisyan went to a well-earned rest, he continued to convey and share his experience with younger generations of lecturers.