REGISTER BOOK KEPT AT YSU AS THE CERTIFICATE OF FIRST DEGREE AWARD
According the first register book of candidate and doctoral dissertations of YSU the first defense of candidate dissertation was held in 1938 and the doctoral dissertation defense was in 1943.
YSU Scientific Secretary Levon Hovsepyan told us that the register contains facts about the protection of scientific degrees in Russian, about the personal data of the authors of the scientific works, topics of dissertation, opponents.
According to the register, the first candidate's thesis was defended by Gegham Galfyan in 1938 in chemical science.
According to Levon Hovsepyan, it is interesting that postgraduate studies at YSU were opened in 1928.
The book also contains information on the candidate's thesis on literary critic Mkrtich Mkryan.
He was the author of the first dissertation on Armenian literature in 1939.
The register also states that in the 1960s science developed in Armenia.