Corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (NAS RA) Ararat Aghasyan has been re-elected director of the Institute of Arts of the NAS RA. The decision was made during the March 6 session of the chairmanship of the NAS RA.

Ararat Aghasyan was born in 1956 in Sisian. In 1978, he graduated from the Arts Division of the Faculty of History at Moscow State University after Mikhail Lomonosov. In 2014, he was elected a corresponding member of the NAS RA. He is author of 15 monographs and 121 scientific articles and has been working at the Institute of Arts of the NAS RA since 1978. He has been the director of the Institute since 2003.

In 2008, Ararat Aghasyan received the title of Merited Art Figure of the Republic of Armenia, the Gold Medals of Armenia’s Ministry of Education and Science and Ministry of Culture, and in 2012 — the Garegin Nzhdeh Medal of the Ministry of Defense.