Vagrich Bakhchanyan

[3] He was a Soviet nonconformist and Ukrainian underground artist, and conceptual writer and poet working in the Russian language.

In 1974 Bakhchanyan emigrated to United States, and lived in New York City, where he was active in the literary and art scene.

There he collaborated with Russian and Soviet émigré writers Sergei Dovlatov, Alexander Genis, and Naum Sagalovsky, among others.

He illustrated the last sixty-six journal covers of a leading democratic international Russian language magazine "Vremya i My",[4] published by Viktor Perelman.

According to Vagrich's last will, his ashes were scattered high in the Geghama mountains (Armenia), over a stone covered with ancient petroglyphs.