Verjine Svazlian

In 1958, Svazlian worked at the Manouk Abeghian Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia, where she was initially a M. Abeghian grant-aided student (under the scientific leadership of the Academician Karapet Melik-Ohandjanian). Since 1961, Svazlian has been working at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. Meanwhile, from 1996 to 2004, she also worked at The Armenian Genocide Museum-institute. She has maintained her Candidate thesis in 1965 and her thesis for a Doctor's degree in 1995.

Verjine Svazlian (Armenian: Վերժինե Սվազլյան, March 1, 1934) is an Armenian ethnographer and folklorist, historian, genocide scholar, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of NAS RA, Doctor of Philology, Professor. Honoured Scientists of the Armenia (2016). Svazlian saved from a total loss the various folklore relics communicated, in different dialects, by the Armenians forcibly exiled from Western Armenia, Cilicia and Anatolia to the various countries of the world and finally repatriated to Armenia.

Verjine Svazlian was born in 1934 in Alexandria in the family of Armenian genocide survivor, writer and public man, Karnik Svazlian. She was involved at Poghossian Armenian National School, where she got her elementary education and at the Armenian Nuns’ Immaculate Conception School with a French language bias for secondary education. In 1947 she was repatriated with her parents to Soviet Armenia. In 1956 Svazlian graduated from the Yerevan Khachatour Abovian Armenian State Pedagogical University Department of the Armenian Language and Literature.