YEREVAN, MAY 29, NOYAN TAPAN. The memory-morning party taken place on May 29 at the Theatrical Figures' Union of Armenia was dedicated to the 130th birthday anniversary of famous producer, actor and theater builder Isahak Alikhanian who has been honoured the first People's artist title of the Soviet Armenia. Isahak Alikhanian, with his rich and various theatrical activity, has his unique place in history of the Armenian theater, speaker of the day Vahe Shahverdian, the Artistic Head of the Gabriel Soundukian National Academic Theater emphasized. According to him, the younger generation almost does not know Alikhanian, and there are neither his partners nor contemporaries now, but this fact does not cover with shade the great actor's productive way. Isahak Alikhanian played at the Baku Armenian theater during the first times, then moved to the Tbilisi Armenian theater. He was invited in 1922 with some other actors from Tbilisi to Yerevan to found the Gabriel Sundukian State Academic Theater. On the stage of the mother theater, the prominent artist staged Sundukian's "Pepo" and at the same time played the leading hero's, Pepo's part. Living and working in Yerevan during a short period of his life, the talented actor and producer returned Tbilisi later.

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