Sergey Balasanian

Sergey Artem'yevich Balasanian (13 August 1902 in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan13 June 1982 Moscow, Russia) was an Armenian composer during the Soviet Union. He taught composition in the Moscow State Conservatory.
Balasanian wrote the first Tajik opera – "The Uprising at Vosse" (first staged in 1939).
Sergey Balasanian was awarded the State Prize of the USSR (1949) and five orders. In 1957 he was decorated as People’s Artist of the Tajik SSR, and in 1963 as Honored Art Worker of the Russian SFSR.