Yervan Lalayan ethnographer, archeologist, folklorist. He was also the founder and the first director of the History Museum of Armenia

History Museum of Armenia

The History Museum of Armenia is the national museum of Armenia founded in 1919 as Ethnographic-Anthropological Museum-Library. It is located on the Republic Square in Yerevan.- History :...

 from 1919 to 1927.
In 1885 he ended Tiflis's Nersisyan School

Nersisyan School

Nersisyan School was an Armenian school in Tiflis, Russian Empire . Nersisyan School existed exactly one century, from 1824 to 1924. It was founded by Nerses Ashtaraketsi.- History :...

 and work in Akhaltsikhe

Akhaltsikhe

Akhaltsikhe is a small city in Georgia's southwestern region of Samtskhe-Javakheti. It is situated on the both banks of a small river Potskhovi, which separates the city to the old city in the north and new in the south. The name of the city translates from Georgian as "new fortress".- History...

 and Akhalkalaki

Akhalkalaki

Akhalkalaki is a small city in Georgia's southern region of Samtskhe-Javakheti with a population of 60,975. Akhalkalaki lies on the edge of the Javakheti Volcanic Plateau. The city is located about 30 km from the border with Turkey. 90 percent of the city's population are ethnic Armenians...

, and Alexandrapol as a teacher. In 1894 ending the faculty of social sciences

Social sciences

Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...

 in the University of Geneva

University of Geneva

The University of Geneva is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland.It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin, as a theological seminary and law school. It remained focused on theology until the 17th century, when it became a center for Enlightenment scholarship. In 1873, it...

. Receiving the level of Candidate of sociological sciences, he worked in the Mkhitarians of Venice

Mechitarists

The Mechitarists , are a congregation of Benedictine monks of the Armenian Catholic Church founded in 1712 by Abbot Mechitar of Sebastia. They are best known for their series of scholarly publications of ancient Armenian versions of otherwise lost ancient Greek texts.-History:Their eponymous...

. Returning to Armenia in 1895-1897 he worked in the diocesan school of Shusha

Shusha

Shusha , also known as Shushi is a town in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus. It has been under the control of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic since its capture in 1992 during the Nagorno-Karabakh War...

. Here consolidating the outstanding scientists (Manuk Abeghian, T. Toramian, Hrachia Acharian

Hrachia Acharian

Hrachia Hakobi Acharian was a prominent Armenian linguist, etymologist and philologist, Professor, Academic of Armenian Academy of Sciences, a member of French Linguistic Association and Czechoslovakian Institute of Oriental studies.He studied at...

, Leo

Arakel Babakhanian

Arakel Grigori Babakhanian was an Armenian historian, publicist, writer, critic and professor of Yerevan State University . He is recognized as an authoritative historian on Armenia and is best known as the author of the multivolume History of Armenia...

, Melikset bek, S. Lisitsyan, Kh. Samuelyan, S. Zelinski, etc. ն he founded "The Ethnographic Magazine" in 1896. On November 21, 1900 he founded the Armenian Ethnographic publishing house in Tiflis. And in 1906 - Armenian Ethnographic Society. The museum of the society was transferred from Tiflis to 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...

in 1921.

Works

Lalayan’s works were regularly published in "Azgagrakan Handes" in 1897-1916:

• "Javakhk",
• "Varanda",
• "The Province of Zanguezur",
• "The Province of Gandzak",
• "The Province of Borchalu",
• "Vayots Dzor",
• "Nakhijevan or Nakhchavan Prefecture",
• "The Province of Nor Bayazet or Gegharkunik",
• "Ritual Rites among the Armenians",
• "The Excavations of Burial Mounds in Soviet Armenia" (Yerevan, 1931)

comprise only a part of his rich scientific heritage.