Hambardzum Arakelian was an Armenia

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n journalist, writer and public activist, the founder of The Relief Committee for Armenian migrants (1915) and Armenian Popular party.

He studied in Shusha, then in Baku

Baku

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 and Moscow

Moscow

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, then moved to Tbilisi

Tbilisi

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, where edited "Mshak" paper (succeed to Grigor Artsruni

Grigor Artsruni

Grigor Eremiayi Artsruni was an Armenian journalist, critic, writer and public activist, Doctor of Political Economy and Philosophy...

). He participated to Hague Peace Conference, marked the necessity of reforms in Armenians-inhabited territories of Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

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. An opposer of October Revolution

October Revolution

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, he was killed in 1918.

Sources

• Concise Armenian Encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan
  Yerevan
  Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
  
  , 1990, Vol. 1, pp. 145-146.