Aksel Vartanyan
Aksel Tatevosovich Vartanyan is a Soviet and Russian journalist and sports historian from Tbilisi.
Vartanyan graduated from the Historical-Philological Department of the Tbilisi Pedagogical Institute. Since 1962, he has worked full-time as a school teacher.
He is best known as a journalist for the Football weekly and the newspaper Sport Express, as well as for his research in archives and other written stock-piles that accumulated since the inception of domestic club football.