Memorial board in memory of Sos Sargsyan opened at Teryan 65

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 24, ARMENPRES. Memorial board in memory of Sos Sargsyan was opened on Armenian prominent and loved actor’s birthday. “People's Artist of the USSR Sos Sargsyan lived in this house. “When I was doing this work, I thought that he was a very good man. Sos Sargsyan had a big volume of love and he shared it with everyone. He never lied: This is a very significant feature: I made this memorial boarder with love”, Honorary worker of culture, author of the memorial board Levon Igityan mentioned about this, as “Armenpress” reports.

According to the Director of the National Theater after Sos Sargsyan Vardan Mkrtchyan’s speech, they followed the master’s principle. “Sos Artashesovich always told us that art is a taste. We will make a performance representing Sos Sargsyan’s National Theatre for the first time on October 24”, Vardan Mkrtchyan mentioned.

According to him, “On 44 stairs” performance will be performed in master’s memory.

Sos Sargsyan was born in Stepanavan in northern Armenia, at the time part of the Soviet Union. He moved to Yerevan in 1948 and started to perform at the Theater of the Young Spectator. He graduated from the Fine Arts and Theater Institute in 1954 as an actor. Between 1954 and 1991 he performed at the Sundukyan State Academic Theatre of Yerevan.

In October 1991, a month after Armenia's independence from the Soviet Union, Sargsyan took part in the first presidential election in independent Armenia. He was nominated by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. In 1991 he established the Hamazgayin (Pan-National) Theater, which he headed until his death. From 1997 to 2006 he was the rector of the Yerevan Cinema and Theatre Institute. Sargsyan died on September 26, 2013 in Yerevan. Sargsyan's funeral was held on September 29 in attendance of Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan and thousands of people. He was buried at the Komitas Pantheon.

Sargsyan started acting in 1947. Some of his most notable roles include Don Quixote, Iago, King John, King Lear, etc. He starred in over 40 films, mostly Armenian.]Besides Armenian films he has starred in a number of Russian films, most notable of which is Solaris (1972), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.