Olga Gulazyan

The recorded working language is Armenian. Residence is recorded at Yerevan. Employment is recorded with Sundukyan State Academic Theatre. Distinctions recorded are Stalin Prize, 2nd degree, Order of Lenin, People's Artist of the Armenian SSR and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

• Name — Olga Gulazyan • Native Name — Օլգա Նիկողայոսի Գուլազյան • Born — 8 January 1886 • Birthplace — Tiflis, Russian Empire • Died — 27 May 1970 • Place of death — Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1900–1963 • Employer — Sundukyan State Academic Theatre • Spouse — David Galuzyan

She was born on 8 January 1886, in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia). She graduated from the parish school of the Kharpukhi district in Tiflis. She began her stage career at the age of 15. In 1900, she played the role of Nato in the play Another Victim by Gabriel Sundukian, receiving the author's encouragement. She began her professional career in 1901 in Petros Adamian State Drama Theatre in Tbilisi. Took part in performances at the Zubalov People's House, Araksi theater and in the Avjalyan auditorium. She later toured to Baku, New Nakhichevan, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yerevan, Alexandropol and Shusha. Gulazyan's distinctive art was formed as a result of joint work with great Armenian actors: Hovhannes Abelian, Siranush, G. Petrosyan and O.Maysuryan. In 1926, Gulazyan moved to Yerevan and became the actress of the Gabriel Sundukyan State Academic Theater. In 1955, she was elected deputy of the Supreme Council of the Armenian SSR of the IV convocation. She died on 27 May 1970, in Yerevan. She was buried at the Tokhmakhskoye cemetery.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1900 — Another victim — Nato • 1922 — Pepo — Epemia • 1924 — Tartuffe — Dorina • 1927 — Hatabala — Natalia • 1927 — Uncle Bagdasar — — • 1929 — A Profitable Position — Felisata Gerasimovna Kukushkina • 1933 — The Imaginary Invalid — Tuanet • 1936 — Namus — — • 1944 — The Cliff — — • 1946 — Without a Dowry — Kharita Ignatievna Ogudalova • 1950 — Daring — — • 1952 — Egor Bulychov and others — Ksenia • 1957 — The trees are dying standing — Grandmother