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Henrikh Ovanesovych Altunian (Ukrainian: Генріх Ованесович Алтунян, 24 November 1933 – 30 June 2005) was an Armenian-Ukrainian activist, dissident and victim of Communist repression, who served as a member of the First Convocation of Verkhovna Rada between 1990 and 1994.
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Henrikh Ovanesovych Altunian (Ukrainian: Генріх Ованесович Алтунян, 24 November 1933 – 30 June 2005) was an Armenian-Ukrainian activist, dissident and victim of Communist repression, who served as a member of the First Convocation of Verkhovna Rada between 1990 and 1994.
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Biography Henrikh Altunian was born on 24 November 1933 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, to an Armenian family. His father was a military serviceman. In 1944 the family moved to Kharkiv, where Henrikh entered the local aviation engineering high school in 1951. After graduating in 1956, Altunian spent four years serving as a military engineer at an army base in Uzyn, before returning to work as a teacher in Kharkiv. Altunian's dissident activities started in 1964, when he voiced his distrust in the new Communist Party leadership at a meeting of his chair's party cell. Due to his connections to members of the dissident movement, as well as his participation in publicizing of an address to state authorities by Andrei Sakharov, in 1968 Altunian got demoted from the rank of major, was relieved from his military position and lost his membership in the Communist Party. During the following months he worked as an engineer in Kharkiv. In 1969 Altunian entered the Initiative Group for the Defense of Human Rights in the USSR. As member of the group, he signed several petitions in defense of Crimean Tatars and co-authored an address to the United Nations. After signing a letter against the forced…
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Personal life and death Altunian was married and had two children. He died on 30 June 2005 from complications of a surgery and was buried in Kharkiv.
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Commemoration In April 2026, the Kharkiv City Council adopted a decision to install a memorial plaque dedicated to Altunian in one of the city's streets following an appeal by the city's Armenian community.