Khachaturiyan, Avadis. His biographical account is unavailable. He was an instrumentalist on the Gulha orchestra in the 1940s who had joined the Gulha as a member of a troupe of musicians from Armenia, the former USSR who had entered Iran. He performed and arranged a number of classical Armenian folk melodies with the Golha orchestra which were sung by Vigen and Ilaha, the most famous of which include Daghistani (From Dagestan) and Sari Galin (Yellow Bride) which were Arranged and performed by Jawad Ma’rufi.