Aksel Tatevosovich Vartanyan (; born January 8, 1938) is a Soviet and Russian journalist and sports historian from Tbilisi.
Career Vartanyan graduated from the Historical-Philological Department of the Tbilisi Pedagogical Institute. Since 1962, he has worked full-time as a school teacher.
He is best known as a journalist for the Football weekly and the newspaper Sport Express, as well as for his research in archives and other written stock-piles that accumulated since the inception of domestic club football.
Bibliography History of USSR Championships 1936-1979 "Futbol" Moscow 1994-98Links to the book Eduard Streltsov - criminal or victim? "Terra-sport", Moscow 2001Book "Eduard Streltsov - criminal or victim?" () Secret Archive "Sport-Express" (2001) Under the Red Banner of Sportintern (October 1, 2001) Eastern novel (October 15, 2001) Not so scary is demon (October 22, 2001) Difficult road to "Double-V" (October 29, 2001) Women for the defenders of republic (November 5, 2001) To Caesar - the Cesarean, to Kosarev - the Kosarean (November 12, 2001) Football, war and diplomacy (December 10, 2001) How we entered FIFA (December 17, 2001) Annals "Sport-Express" (2003-2017)
See also Soviet Top League
References
External links President of Armenia was petitioned to help the Armenian encyclopedia Interview with Vartanyan