Two Armenian officers, a 25-year old Gurgen Margaryan and Hayk Makuchyan, also participated in this program.

Just as Hayk fled from Babylon because of Bel, whom he eventually killed, so Zeus had escaped to the mountains of the Caucasus, later to return to Sicily and hurl fatal arrows into the bodies of his titanic foes.

Antiochus practised astrology of a very esoteric kind, and laid the basis for a calendrical reform, by linking the Commagene year, which till then had been based on the movements of the Sun and Moon, to the Sothic-Anahit ( Star of Sirius ) and Hayk ( Star of Orion ) cycle used by the Egyptians as the basis of their calendar.

At Dyutsaznamart (, " Battle of Giants "), near Julamerk southeast of Lake Van, on August 11, 2492 BC ( according to the Armenian traditional chronology ) or 2107 BC ( according to " The Chronological table " of Mikael Chamchian ), Hayk slew Bel with a nearly impossible shot using a long bow, sending the king's forces into disarray.

Some Armenians hold that the Greek stories of Hercules are based on Hayk.

After the arrogant Titanid Bel made himself king over all, Hayk emigrated to the region near Mount Ararat with an extended household of at least 300 and settled there, founding a village he named Haykashen.

This area was the heartland of Armenians, who lived in these areas from the time of Hayk in the 3rd millennium BCE right up to the late 19th century when the Ottoman Empire seized all the land from the natives.

According to the Armenian aristocratic tradition, the princely houses of Khorkhoruni, Bznuni, Mandakuni, Rshtuni, Manavazian, Angelea ( Angegh tun ), Varajnuni, Ohanian, Cartozian, Apahuni, Arran tun and some others, are all believed to be direct descendants of Nahapet ( Patriarch ) Hayk, whose epithet was Dyutsazn ( from Ancient Greek θεός, meaning " divine "), or of Hayk's descendants.

The original Armenian name for the country was Hayk, later Hayastan ( Armenian: Հայաստան ), translated as the land of Haik, and consisting of the name of the ancient Mesopotamian god Haya ( ha-ià ) and the indoeuropean suffix '- stan ' ( land ).

The historical enemy of Hayk ( the legendary ruler of Armenia ), Hayastan, was Bel, or in other words Baal ( Akkadian cognate Bēlu ).

According to a legendary tradition reported by Khorenatsi, Arran was a descendant of Sisak, the ancestor of the Siunids of Armenia ’ s province of Syunik, and thus a great-grandson of the ancestral eponym of the Armenians, the Forefather Hayk.

Gegham was a Haykazuni King and fifth generation after Hayk.

Hayk was also the founder of the Haykazuni Dynasty.

According to Juansher Hayk ".. was prince of the seven brothers and stood in service to the giant Nimrod ( Nebrovt ') who first ruled the entire world as king.

In Movses Khorenatsi's account, Hayk son of Torgom had a child named Armanak while he was living in Babylon.

Bel decided to march against him with a massive force, but Hayk was warned ahead of time by Kadmos of his pending approach.

Hayk Bzhishkyan (, Persian هایک پزشکیان, Russian: Гайк Бжишкян, also known as Guy Dmitrievich Guy, Gai Dmitrievich Gai ( Гай Дмитриевич Гай ), Gaya Gai ( Гая Гай ), or Bzhishkyan, – December 11, 1937 ), was a Soviet military commander of the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War.

Hayk was an ethnic Armenian born in Tabriz, Iran to a family of teachers ; his mother was Persian and his father an Armenian socialist ( a member of Social Democrat Hunchakian Party ) who had taken refuge from Tsarist authorities in Persia during the 1880s.

In the past the country was historically called by natives Metz Hayk / Hayq ( Greater Armenia ) and Poqr Hayk / Hayq ( Lesser Armenia ).

Armenian mythology was strongly influenced by Zoroastrianism, with deities such as Aramazd, Mihr or Anahit, as well as Assyrian traditions, such as Barsamin, but there are fragmentary traces of native traditions, such as Hayk or Vahagn and Astghik.

Haik Badalovich Ovakimian ( Hayk Hovakimyan ), Major General, USSR ( 11 August 1898, Nakhchivan-1967 ), better known as " the puppetmaster " in intelligence circles, was a leading Soviet NKVD spy in the United States.

Just prior to his accession in 1606, Susenyos I made his way to the lake Hayk area, where he expelled a group of Oromo who had infiltrated into the vicinity of Istifanos Monastery.

Some of the prominent Armenian royal houses such as the Bagratuni, Khorkhoruni, Bznuni, Syuni, Vahevuni, Manavazian, Arran among others, had traced their genealogy to Hayk Nahapet.

Hayk would then be an aitiological founding figure, like e. g. Asshur for the Assyrians, Indra for the Indians, etc.

* 2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.

* c. 2492 BC The Armenian patriarch Hayk defeats the Babylonian king Bel ( legendary account ).

Hayk Khachatryan, an Armenian novelist, wrote a book called Tigran the Great.

In Armenian legend, the ancestor of the Armenian people, Hayk, defeated Nimrod ( sometimes equated with Bel ) in a battle near Lake Van.

The word has traditionally been linked to the name of the legendary founder of the Armenian nation, Hayk, which is also a popular Armenian name.

Lake Abaya ( Abaya Hayk in Amharic ) is a lake in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region of Ethiopia.

The genealogy of Aran ( old spelling: Eran, hence: Eranshahik ) is preserved by the historiographer Movses Kaghankatvatsi, who wrote that Aran belonged to the lineage of the ancient patriarchs and kings of Armenia, including Hayk, Aramaneak, Aramayis, Gegham, Aram, Ara the Beautiful, Haykak, Norayr, Hrant, Perch, Skayordi, Paruyr, Hrachea, Ervand ( Orontes ) Sakavakeats, Tigranes et al.

Hayk (), also known as Hayk Nahapet ( Հայկ Նահապետ, Hayk the Tribal Chief ) is the legendary patriarch and founder of the Armenian nation.

Հայք Hayk ’ is the nominative plural in Classical Armenian of հայ ( hay ), the Armenian term for " Armenian.

" Some claim that the etymology of Hayq ( Հայք ) from Hayk ( Հայկ ) is impossible and that origin of the term Hay (" Armenian ") is verifiable.

Nevertheless, Hayk and Hayq are usually connected to hay ( հայ ) and hayer ( հայեր, the nominative plural in Modern Armenian ), the self-designation of the Armenians.

Movses gave Hayk's genealogy as follows: Japhet, Gomer & Tiras, Torgom, Hayk, and his descendants as Armanak, Aramais, Amasya, Gegham, Harma, Aram and Ara Geghetsik.

Afterward, Safarov headed for the room of Makuchyan, the other Armenian student, with the intention of also attacking him, but found his door locked.

During his initial interrogation Safarov confessed to killing Margaryan and his intention to kill Makuchyan.

The half-sleeping Makuchyan wanted to open the door, but his Lithuanian roommate stopped him and called his compatriot next door to check what was going on.

It was claimed that Margaryan and / or Makuchyan had urinated on the Azerbaijani flag ; used it to clean and wipe their shoes ; and had played an audio recording of " voices of suffering Azerbaijani women and girls.

He shouted out Makuchyan ’ s name.