People's Artist of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, famed actor Vladimir Abajyan died today, Jan 15 at the age of 86.

Vladimir Abajyan was born in 1927 in Armenia’s city of Gyumri. He graduated from Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography and took a job in Sundukyan State Academic Theatre of Yerevan in 1951. Abajyan was honored with Moses of Chorene award in 1998.