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The death of Armenian animation founder is a great mourning for Sahakyants’ friends, colleagues and fans. During the Soviet Times Robert Sahakyants was famous not only in Armenia but in the countries of Soviet Union and even more, the Soviet Union was more popular with Robert Sahakyants.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union Robert Sahakyants ruled solely Armenian animation for so many years, he has become the leader of it.

“In those years, when the animation failed in many SU states, it has not been ruined in Armenia. We did animation. After the collapse of the union, Robert Sahakyants received invitations from many countries to live and to create there. When I became the director of “ArmenFilm” I told him that I could not imagine Armenian animation without Robert Sahakyants, I said, I could not imagine that Robert Sahakyants would leave Armenia,” Gevorg Gevorgyan says.

The talented animator rejected all the invitations and stayed in Armenia to work and to create here. “Then he had a chance to go and to have a better life. But he stayed, he did not go. He did animation during those dark and cold years,” animator’s friend says.

After Sahakyants’ death Armenian animation will continue living, Gevorgyan says, but it will have quite different mood, it won’t be Sahakyants’.