Goar Vartanian

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Vartanian in 2005

Goar Levonovna Vartanian (Armenian: Գոհար Լևոնի Վարդանյան Russian: Гоар Левоновна Вартанян; 25 January 1926 – 25 November 2019) was an Armenian woman who spied for the Soviet Union together with her husband Gevork Vartanian.

Biography

Vartanian was born Goar Levonovna Pahlevanyan (

Franklin Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference in 1943.[2]

In 1951 the Vartanians moved to the Soviet Union for which they worked as secret agents around the world. Goar's active career as a spy ended in 1986, but she continued training new recruits afterwards. Gevork, who had received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, died in 2012. Goar died on 25 November 2019 and is buried in the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Seelye, Katherine (2019-12-15). "Goar Vartanyan, Celebrated Soviet Spy, Dies at 93". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  2. ^ a b "Soviet spy who foiled Nazi plot to kill allied leaders dies aged 93". The Guardian. AFP. 26 November 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.