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Ruben Aharonyan was born in Riga. In 1971 he graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, class of Yuri Yankelevich. He graduated from the Conservatory with a postgraduate degree under the tuition of Leonid Kogan. Aharonyan taught at Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan (Professor) from 1971 to 1996. From 1983 to 1996 he was the artistic director of the Armenian State Chamber Orchestra. In 1996 he moved to Russia. In 2000 he became the director and the first violinist of the Moscow Borodin Quartet. Ruben Aharonyan was named People's Artist of Armenia in 1980. He won the State Prize of Armenia in 1988 and State Prize of Russia in 2001. In 1996 he was awarded with “Movses Khorenatsi Medal” and in 2012 Gold Medal of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia.