40.1815° N, 44.5145° E

YEREVAN

Most Famous People Born in Yerevan, Armenia

Notable people

768

Peak decade

1980s

Median birth year

1971

Most distinctive

Chess 23.1×

Soviet Armenia poured state money into two things — chess clubs and wrestling halls — and the Yerevan file still shows it, with Wrestler and Boxer benches sitting next to a Pianist count and the Aram Khachaturian conservatory lineage running through the Composer and Opera lines. It is a small capital whose cultural export industry was basically built by the diaspora and the state philharmonic in equal measure.