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Hayk Ordyan

Armenian director

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ16387926
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Hayk Ordyan (Armenian: Հայկ Օրդյան, December 3, 1978, Yerevan), Armenian director, producer.

Biography

Hayk Ordyan was born in 1978 in Yerevan. From 1996-2001 he studied in Armenian State Pedagogical University after Khachatur Abovian (Faculty of Culture). Starting during his student years he worked in the Public Television of Armenia. Over the years, he was the director of news and documentary projects on Armenian TV channels. Since 2011, as a director, he has collaborated with various international TV channels, where he mainly shoots documentaries. From 2008-2016 he has lectured in the Armenian State Pedagogical University after Khachatur Abovian and in Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University. From 2019, he has been teaching at the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography. Since 2019, he has been the founder and director of the production company ORDER FILM, where he makes feature and documentary films.

In 2021, the premiere of the director's movie “Zulali” took place in Yerevan.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Hayk Ordyan” is armenian director. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Hayk, Ordyan and Armenian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 1996, 2001, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-12-03. For this dossier, Hayk, Ordyan and Armenian is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16387926. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1978, 1996, 2001 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from Hayk Ordyan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.