Forgotten hero. Life and scientific heritage of Sarkis Varakovich Sarkisyan (1899–1981)

О монографии С.В. Саркисяна, или Nоn Numeranda, Sed Ponderanda Argumenta («Доказательства хороши качеством, а не количеством»)

Abstract

Sargsyan Sargis Varakovich (Varagovich) (5.09.1899 – 26.10.1981) – Armenian military-political leader, retired colonel. Unusual life path was Sargis Varakovich. He was a participant in two world wars, аfter the Second World War he taught at the Yerevan Medical Institute, passing on his rich experience to young, especially to military doctors. In parallel he studied the military history of ancient and early medieval Armenia (from the second half of the III Millennium BC until the first Arab invasions of Armenia (beginning of the VII century). S.V. Sargsyan was the first in Armenian historiography to study ancient and early medieval Armenian military affairs. The result of these studies was the publication in 1969 of the monograph «From the History of Armenian Military Art». In Armenian historiography this was the first attempt to create a generalized work on the history of military art in Armenia. During the last decade, Armenian historiography has made a big step in the study of ancient Armenian military art. However, all research in this area is of a historical and archaeological character, and so far the work of S.V. Sargsyan remains the only purely military-theoretical work in Armenian historiography.