Samvel Karapetyan (author)

Samvel Karapetian (Armenian: Սամվել Կարապետյան; 30 July 1961 – 27 February 2020) was an Armenian historian, researcher, author, and expert of medieval architecture, specializing in the study of the historical monuments of Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh and other regions of the Southern Caucasus.

Karapetyan was head of the Yerevan branch of the NGO Research on Armenian Architecture (RAA).

He also presented evidence that accuses Georgia and Azerbaijan of deliberately destroying Armenian historical monuments.

[6] In 2007 Karapetian received the Armenian Presidential Humanitarian Sciences Prize for his works,[7] and in 2020 he was posthumously awarded by Movses Khorenatsi medal by the President of Armenia.

In his 2003 book Black Garden British journalist Thomas de Waal disagreed with Karapetian's claims about the town of Kalbajar in Azerbaijan: "In what sense can Kelbajar be called 'Armenian', when no Armenian had lived there for almost a hundred years?