Suren Spandaryan

Suren Spandaryan
Armenian Suren Spandaryan (left) and Joseph Stalin in 1915, during their exile
Born	1882 Tiflis, Russian Empire
Died	1916 (aged 33–34) Krasnoyarsk
Nationality	Armenian
Occupation	literature critic, publicist and Bolshevik

Suren Spandaryan (Armenian: Սուրեն Սպանդարի Սպանդարյան; Tiflis, 1882 - Krasnoyarsk 1916) was an Armenian literature critic, publicist and Bolshevik. In January 1912, he was elected to the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks at the Prague Conference. In March of the same year, Spandaryan was arrested in Baku. Lenin, who considered Spandaryan a "very valuable and prominent worker" supported Spandaryan's father financially after the arrest, since the latter at that time lived in Paris without any means. Spandaryan was sentenced to lifelong exile to Siberia, where he died four years later.

There is a statue of him in Yerevan. The towns of Spandaryan, Shirak, Spandaryan, Syunik and Surenavan are named after him.