14 Facts About Stepan Zatikyan

Stepan Seghbosi Zatikyan was a Soviet dissident and one of the founders of the Armenian NUP.

Stepan Zatikyan received his primary education at the Mikayel Nalbandian Secondary School in Yerevan, graduating in 1963 with a gold medal.

Stepan Zatikyan's life was marked by the mass demonstration on April 24,1965 in Lenin Square; the protestors condemned the 1915 Armenian Genocide and raised the issue of the return of Armenian lands.

Stepan Zatikyan was arrested by police near the grave and detained for fifteen days.

Stepan Zatikyan distributed Paros on the campus of the Polytechnic Institute of Yerevan State University.

Khachatryan and Stepan Zatikyan put seventeen-year-old Paruyr Hayrikyan at the head of this cell.

Arrests of NUP leaders began on July 9,1968; Stepan Zatikyan was in his fifth year at the university at that time.

Stepan Zatikyan was charged with Articles 65.1 and 67 of the Criminal Code of the Armenian SSR, The Supreme Court of the Armenian SSR sentenced Zatikyan to four years in a correctional labor colony.

Stepan Zatikyan worked at the Yerevan Electromechanical Plant as a transformer assembler.

Stepan Zatikyan did not participate in social activities, considering emigration to be the most reasonable way out for himself and for other Armenians who had served their sentences.

In 1975 Stepan Zatikyan sent a statement to the Supreme Soviet in which he renounced Soviet citizenship and asked to be given the opportunity to leave for any non-socialist country.

Stepan Zatikyan did not receive an answer, and the passport was sent to the KGB.

Stepan Zatikyan was introduced as the organizer of the action.

Stepan Zatikyan alleged Zatikyan would have an alibi showing he was not in Moscow at the time of the bombing.