The Stalin Purges

Among the 7,000 Armenians slain during the Stalin purges are Catholicos Khoren I (killed in 1938), Aghasi Khanjian (1936), Vahan Totovents (1938), Hovhannes Haghvertain (1951), and Zabel Yesayan (1943). Most of the prominent Armenians (Haig Pjshgiants), Aksel Pagounts, Movses Siligian, Nersig Stepanian, Trasdamad Der Simonian, Mikael Yenkiparian, Sarkis Lugashin, Bishop Ardag Smpariants , and Yeghishe Charents) were killed in 1937. 

Among the 7,000 Armenians slain during the Stalin purges are Catholicos Khoren I (killed in 1938), Aghasi Khanjian (1936), Vahan Totovents (1938), Hovhannes Haghvertain (1951), and Zabel Yesayan (1943). Most of the prominent Armenians (Haig Pjshgiants), Aksel Pagounts, Movses Siligian, Nersig Stepanian, Trasdamad Der Simonian, Mikael Yenkiparian, Sarkis Lugashin, Bishop Ardag Smpariants , and Yeghishe Charents) were killed in 1937.