Aksel Vartanyan

Aksel Tatevosovich Vartanyan (; born January 8, 1938) is a Soviet and Russian journalist, sports historian and native of Tbilisi.
Vartanyan graduated from the Historical-Philological Department of Tbilisi Pedagogical Institute. Since 1962 he was teaching in school.
Vartanyan is famous as journalist for the "Football" weekly and the newspaper "Sport Express", researcher of archives and other written stock-piles that accumulated since the inception of domestic club football.