Koryun Nahapetyan
Koryun Nahapetyan (; ; 1926 in Leninakan – 1999 in Moscow) was an Armenian-Russian painter-nonconformist, sociologist, philosopher and public activist, a participant of the Bulldozer Exhibition. He was a member of UNESCO International Federation of Painters. Biography 
Nahapetyan was born in Hatsik village, near Leninakan, Soviet Armenia. In 1950 he moved to Moscow and worked there in the ZiL factory. Nahapetyan finished the art school in Leninakan and Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry, entered the post-graduate courses at the VNIITE. In 1978 he founded the "20 Moscow painters" movement. In 1988 he became one of the founders of Karabakh Committee of Moscow. In 1999 Nahapetyan was killed in his studio. External links

 https://web.archive.org/web/20170516023454/http://m-mos.ru/2008/01/34.htm
 http://www.museum.ru/N27429

Armenian painters
Russian people of Armenian descent
20th-century Russian painters
Russian male painters
Soviet painters
1926 births
1999 deaths
People from Gyumri
Armenian people murdered abroad
People murdered in Russia
20th-century Russian male artists
Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry alumni