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AMAYAK ABRAMYANTS
Born in 1952
Amayak Abramyants (Ter-Abramyants) was born in the city of Tallinn,
Estonia. His father, a Ph.D. surgeon, came from a family of hereditary
priests. His mother, a teacher, was a member of a Ukrainian peasant
family. Hamayak’s parental grandparents and their four children
were killed during the Armenian Genocide in Turkey, 1915. Only two
members of the family survived — Amayak’s father and
aunt.
Amayak completed his high school studies in Podolsk; in 1976, he
graduated from the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute, and in 1992—
from the Institute of Literature (fiction department).
Amayak Abramyants lives and writes in Russia. He has traveled all
over the former USSR. Now he works in Moscow as a physician. His
writings have been published in newspapers and other periodicals
such as “Bibliotekar” (Librarian) “Otechestvenniye
Zapiski” (Homeland Notes), “Raduga” (Rainbow,
Estonia), and in “Podolsky Almanakh” (Almanac of
Podolsk). He is the author of narrative collections “Vitrazh”
and "Tallinn–Moscow Train".
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