Merited Armenian artist Frid Soghoyan passes away

Frid Soghoyan, a merited Soviet-Armenian painter and sculptor, has died at age 83 in Moscow, the Armenian Embassy to Russia says in a statement on Facebook.

A renowned people’s artist of Armenia, Russia and Ukraine and a laureate of the Lenin Prize, Soghoyan created portraits and monumental decorative sculptures standing out with their life-size effect and the characters’ present and eternal existence.

He gave his unique interpretations to the statues of Stepan Shahumyan (1970, Yerevan), the leader of the Russian revolution in the Caucasus, and the Great Wisdom Lovers of the East at the Façade of the Afrasiab Museum of Samarkand (1970), as well as the different monuments to the heroes of the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War in Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), Samarkand, etc.