ArmInfo. Armenian President Armen Sargsyan for strengthening and developing Armenian-Russian cultural contacts, as well as an important contribution to the field of cinema, awarded Medvedev with the Order of Honor. This was reported to ArmInfo in the press service of the RA President.
Note that Armen Nikolaevich Medvedev was born on May 28, 1938 in Moscow. Russian film critic, film expert, film producer, teacher, honored art worker of the Armenian SSR and the Russian Federation. Twice winner of the "Nika" award. Awarded the Order <Badge of Honor> (1981), the Order <For services to the Fatherland> IV degree (1998). He was named in honor of her great-grandmother's husband, actress, People's Artist of the Armenian SSR - Anaida Maschyan, Armen Karpovich Gulakyan. In 1960 he graduated from the film studies faculty of VGIK (workshop N. Lebedev). Candidate of Art Criticism (1982). He worked as head of the lecture department, director of the Soviet Cinema Propaganda Bureau, chief editor of Soviet Film, chief editor of Art of Cinema magazine, and chief editor of the All- Union Union Soyuzinformkino. Since 1980 he has been teaching at the film studies faculty of VGIK. 1987- 1989 - First Deputy Chairman of the USSR Goskino. In 1989-1991 - head. Department of Culture and Education of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. 1992-1999 - Chairman of the State Cinema of Russia. Since May 1999 - President of the International Fund for the Development of Cinema and Television for Children and Youth (<Rolan Bykov Foundation>).
Author of several books, including <Essays on Actors> (1961), <Who is He?> (1968), <The Tenth Muse> (1977, jointly with A. Chernyshov), <For the sake of life on earth. Issue 1> (1982, jointly with I. Shilova). Published in scientific collections VNIIK; in the magazines "Art of Cinema", <Soviet screen>, <Film studies>, <Cinema-eye>, <Art>, etc .; in the newspapers <Screen and Scene>, <Soviet Culture>, <Literary Gazette>, <Moscow News>, <Izvestia>.