1950s1950–1959

The 1950s are one of the archive's richest decades, with folk and ashugh song next to opera. Among the most recorded voices are Zara Dolukhanova, Shara Talyan, a co-founder of the Yerevan Opera who published the first notated collections of Sayat-Nova's songs, and the mezzo-soprano Tatevik Sazandaryan. In 1954 Konstantin Orbelyan formed an estrada quintet at Armenian Radio, and in 1955 Radio Yerevan began broadcasting in Kurdish, the start of the Kurdish and Yazidi song collection preserved in the archive.