Armenak Khanferiants (or Khanperiants) was born in 1902 in the village of Mets Tagher (Böyük Tağlar), Shushinsky Uyezd, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire.

Khanferiants travelled to Baku to study and started working at oilfields owned by Armenian tycoon and philanthropist Alexander Mantashev.

While he was in Astrakhan during the Russian Civil War, he was saved from drowning in a steamer sunk by a British gunboat by his friend, Sergei Khudyakov, who was later killed fighting the Whites.

In 1929, Khudyakov was admitted to the Tiflis Cavalry School, and in 1931 went to Moscow to attend the Zhukovsky Military Air Academy.

Aviation units under his command took part in the offensive of the Western Front forces in the Rzhev-Sychevka direction and supported the ground troops in the Rzhev-Vyazma operation.

[2] His wife and younger son were also arrested on 13 January 1951 as family members of a traitor to the motherland and sent to Krasnoyarsk Krai in the Taseyevsky District.

[2] In August 1954, in the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office began a review of the archival materials of Sergei Khudyakov's case.

On 18 August 1954, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court decided: the judgment of 18 April 1950 in respect of Sergei Alexandrovich Khudyakov, who is also Armenak Khanferyants, is cancelled on newly discovered evidence.By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, Khudyakov was rehabilitated by the court on 6 July 1965 and was posthumously restored to the military rank of Air Marshal and his awards.

The village came under Azerbaijani control in November 2020; satellite imagery from July 2021 indicate Khudyakov's statue outside the museum has been destroyed.