Suren Spandaryan

Suren Spandari Spandaryan (Armenian: Սուրեն Սպանդարի Սպանդարյան; 1882 in Tiflis – 24 September 1916) was an Armenian revolutionary in the Russian Empire, literary critic, publicist and one of the founders of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.

[1] In 1907, they spent New Year's Eve together in Baku and attempted to encourage more strikes among the workers there.

[2] In January 1912, he was elected to the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks at the Prague Conference.

Lenin, who considered Spandaryan a "very valuable and prominent worker"[4] supported Spandaryan's father financially after the arrest, since the latter at that time lived in Paris without any means.

[1] He was sentenced to lifelong exile to Siberia, where he died four years later.