Karen Khachaturyan
September 19, 1920 — Moscow, USSR
Karen S. Khachaturian (19 September 1920 — July 19, 2011) — was Soviet and Russian composer and teacher. People's artist of the RSFSR (1981). Laureate of the State prize of the USSR (1976). Laureate of the State prize of Russia (2001). A member of the CPSU since 1952.
