Varsham Yeremyan

Varsham Yeremyan was born in 1897 in the village of Darnavarz in Karabakh (according to Russian Wikipedia). From 1905 he lived in Krasnovodsk and then Samarkand. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1917–1918) and at VKhUTEMAS (1921–1927).

In 1918–1921 he taught at the Samarkand art school-commune, and in 1928–1934 drew caricatures for the satirical magazine «Mushtum». From 1938 he sat on the board of the Uzbek Union of Artists and chaired it in 1940; he moved to Tashkent with his family in 1939.

He began in film in 1934 at Tajikfilm as art director of «Emigrant». From 1944 to 1963 he was chief artist of the Uzbekfilm studio, designing «Tahir and Zuhra» (1945), «The Adventures of Nasreddin» (1946), «Alisher Navoi» (1947), «Avicenna» (1956) and other films.

He was named People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR in 1944 and received a diploma of the All-Union film festival in 1958 for the design of «Avicenna». He died in Tashkent on 12 February 1963.