Sirvart Vartan Poladian (Armenian: Սիրվարդ Վարդան Փոլադյան; June 16, 1902 – December 26, 1970) was an Armenian-American ethnomusicologist and librarian.

[2] She escaped to Canada, where she gave public talks, explaining to audiences that "I have been through three massacres.

[6] She was Sidney Robertson Cowell's assistant on the Works Progress Administration's California Folk Music Project.

[9] Poladian taught at Florida State University from 1946 to 1948,[10] and was on the music staff at the New York Public Library from 1953 to 1968.

[11][12] Poladian became a United States citizen in 1929, and married John Kachie in 1949.