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BALAYAN ZORI

Novelist, Journalist, Sports-doctor, Traveller, Sports expert, 1972 Member of the Writers’ Union of Armenia

Born February 10th, 1935, Nagorni Gharabagh, Stepanakert town.
Graduate of the Riazana Institute of Medicine (Russia). He worked in Kamtchatca as a doctor. From Kamtchatca he went to Odessa on the “Vulgan” and “Haiezer” ships, and then crossed the Atlantic Ocean. He crossed the Kamtchatca and Tchokotscaya tundras with dog-sledges, travelling as far as the North Sea. These journeys have been narrated in book form.
Z. Balayan is a chronicler of the Artsakh movement and Artsakh war. 1988-1991 on meeting with relevant important personages of the Soviet Union Communist Party Central Committee, he describes the fundamental problems of Artsakh, and the tragedies that took place in Nagorni Gharabagh, and warned of the dangers of spreading of Pan-Turkism. In 1990, September 9th - 20th, the “Moscow” declared a hunger-strike, demanding the re-establishment of the legal rights of Nagorni Gharabagh. He took an active role in planning the defence battles from Arats to Omar mountain pass. He is a journalist of the “Literarturnaya Gazetta”. He organises the help coming from different countries to the Artsakh region, including the help given by Baroness Cox’s mission.
He is a member of the Journalists’ Union.
His diaries, documentary writing and philosophical and journalistic dialogues are dedicated to the healthy lifestyle, environmental, moral and economical issues. His open letter to the newlyweds is published in fifteen languages.

WORKS

1. My Kiligia, (Russian), Yerevan, 2004
2. Chasm, (Armenian and Russian), Yerevan, 2004
3. Heaven and Hell (Armenian, Russian and English) Los Angeles, 1997, Yerevan, 1995
4. Hearth, Moscow 1984, Yerevan 1981
5. Between Two Fires, Yerevan 1979

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