Name: Rashid Karapetyan
Place of Birth: Yerevan
Date of Birth: 28 December 1937
Favorite Band or Singer: Sofia Rotaru
Favorite Song: “Sareri Hovin Mernem”
Favorite Song from Paros Chamber Choir Repertoire: Nubar, Nubar
Personal Goal: My family’s happiness and success. To enjoy life with my children and grandchildren.
Personal Statement including hobbies, interests, family, etc.: I like cooking various meals and enjoying every pleasant thing.

I studied at the Yerevan Dance College. During my school years I enjoyed participating in acrobatics.

In 1955, after finishing school and dance college, I started working as a ballet dancer in the State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet. After having danced for two years, I served in the Soviet Army for three years. In 1960, I joined the newly established State Dance Ensemble. After four years of dancing in the Ensemble, I was first to be awarded the title of the Honored Artist of Armenia. In 1965, I was awarded the prestigious Lenin Prize. In 1967, as representative of Armenia in the USSR team. I toured in India, Laos and Cambodia, where the Cambodian King awarded me the Order of Honor. In 1968, I was awarded a medal from the Minister of Culture of Hungary. In 1970, I toured in the United States. After my return home, during a training exercise, I fell and ultimately received a spinal injury. This was the end of my art career, after having toured throughout the entire USSR and 50 countries around the world.

I am unemployed.