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Aram Ilyich Khachaturian, (Russian: Аpaм Ильич Xaчaтypян or Aram Il'ič Hačaturjan) (1903 - 1978) was a Russian composer of Armenian origin. He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia (then a part of pre-Soviet Imperial Russia) to a poor Armenian family. In his youth, he was fascinated by the music he heard around him, but at first he did not study music or learn to read it.
In 1921, he traveled to Moscow to join his brother, unable to speak a word of Russian.