Armand Maloumian (4 May 1928 – 24 June 2007[1] was a French Gulag prisoner in the Soviet Union and writer.
[2] In 1947 he moved with his family to Soviet Armenia, where his father, a specialist in athletic traumatology, was offered a medical professorship.
Maloumian was arrested in Moscow in 1948, accused of being a French spy, was convicted under Article 58 of the Soviet penal code and was imprisoned in Rechlag labor camp of the Gulag.
The Soviet authorities allowed his family to return to France in 1954, after Stalin's death.
After his return, Maloumian wrote his memoirs of his imprisonment, Les fils du Goulag, published in French in 1976 and translated into a number of languages.