Nairi Zarian (born Hayastan Yeghiazarian, Armenian: Նաիրի Զարյան, January 13, 1901, Kharakonis, Ottoman Empire – July 12, 1969, Yerevan) was a Soviet and Armenian writer, poet and playwright.

He also served the chairman of the Armenian SSR Committee for the Defense of Peace.

An orphan and survivor of the Armenian genocide, he fled to Eastern Armenia in 1915.

[1] In 1918, he fought as part of a militia against Ottoman forces in Western Armenia.

[2] In the poem "Rock of Rushan" (1930) he showed "the socialistic resistance of an Armenian village".