The United States bestows the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the United Kingdom has the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire—but no nation loved medals more than the Soviet Union. Some ...

YEREVAN, MARCH 21, ARMENPRESS. Shavarsh Karapetyan, 66, the Armenian retired athlete who became a household name after saving dozens of people from drowning in a 1976 accident in Yerevan, has been ...

YEREVAN, MAY 19, ARMENPRESS. The prominent Armenian finswimmer, World and European champion, best known for saving the lives of 20 people in a 1976 incident in Yerevan, Shavarsh Karapetyan is going to ...

Nearly 40 years ago, a European swimming champion was out for a run in his home country of Armenia — then part of the U.S.S.R. — when a trolleybus went off the tracks and plunged into a nearby lake.

The Olympic torch made it to the Kremlin in Moscow after starting the Russian leg of its global journey Sunday, but a strong gust of wind temporarily extinguished the flame. Torch bearer Shavarsh ...

The Olympic torch relay got off to a rocky start in Moscow when the flame briefly went out during a loop through the Kremlin. Torch bearer and former world swimming champion Shavarsh Karapetyan ...

De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis writes about Shavarsh Karapetyan, the man who saved 20 people in the trolley bus accident in Yerevan in 1976. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest ...

The Olympic torch flickered out as former Soviet world swimming champion Shavarsh Karapetyan carried it through the Kremlin gates during a nationally televised ceremony on Sunday. A few steps later, ...