Sokrat Khanyan (Armenian: Սոկրատ Աղալարի Խանյան; born January 22, 1930) is an Armenian poet, translator, literary critic, publicist, doctor of philology, professor, member of Writers Union of Armenia, and a member of the USSR Writers' Union since 1958.
Between 1949 and 1953 he studied and graduated from Baku V. I. Lenin State Pedagogical Institute, Department of Armenian Language and Literature, Faculty of Philology.
In 1965 Institute of Literature after Manuk Abeghyan of NAS RA he defended a thesis on "Nairi Zaryan Dramaturgy", and received the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences.
In 2002 he defended his thesis at the Abeghyan Institute of Literature on "The Fate of the Homeland in Armenian Poetry (1950–1990)" and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philological Sciences.
[1][2] In 2010, on his 80th birthday, he was awarded a Mesrop Mashtots medal, by President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan.