Akop Astvatsatryan

Akop(Hakob) Astvatsatryan was born in Yerevan, the capital of Soviet Armenia. As a child, he moved to Moscow. In elementary school he loved to draw, but this love didn’t develop. After graduating from high school, he entered the college and later became a student at Institute of Transport Engineers, but never got a chance to study there, because he was drafted into the army. He served for two years on the northern border of the USSR - Finland, and returned to different country - The Soviet Union collapsed. It was very tough time and very difficult to earn money in the new Russia, so there was no permanent job. He worked wherever he had opportunity. 1996 started working in the tourism industry. In 1999 he opened his own travel company and worked until 2015.
«At 45, I realized that my life had a lack of sparkness and it was boring. I missed new opportunities. And then I set to myself three goals that do not characterize me at all:
1. Learn to drive a motorcycle (all my life I was an opponent of this) and get a driving license.
2. Learn to paint with oil on canvas.
3. Learn to play the piano and learn any Chopin piece.
The first two goals have been achieved. For the first time I picked up a brush on October 25, 2015....

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