просветитель, нахичевань-на-дону, училище, воспитание, нахичеванская духовная семинария, общественная деятельность, scholar, nakhichevan-on-don, school, education, nakhichevan ecclesiastical seminary, social activity, Law, History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, AZ20-999

The article studies the Nakhichevan period of educational, scientific and socio-political activity of the Armenian scholar Y.Shahaziz. He had been teaching in numerous educational institutions of the city for forty years. He was a member of different charitable organizations, ostensible member of the City Council and the organizer of the first city museum. It was in Nakhichevan, where he wrote a number of important scientific works on the history and ethnography of the Don Armenians.