People's artist of the USSR Rudolf Loris Khachatrian was born in Yerevan in 1937. His childhood was full of hardship as he was destined to live through severe war and afterwar years. His family had nothing in common with professional artistic life and moreover, was least interested in art. All these could hardly promote his further success in the world of art. Yet being still a teenager he was keen on drawing. Little by little his love and enthusiasm turned into a deep passion for art and at the age of 18 he exhibited his drawings at different exhibitions held in republic. He took drawing lessons with prominant painter and sculptor Ervand Kochar. His formation as an artist was most active in the 1960s when the world of art was in search of new traditions. Rudolf Khachatrian is a "poet of line" as he was called by one of the Honoured Art workers of the USSR C. B. Yamshikov; "Just a very simple line in his drawings turns into a universal means making it possible to express the most subtle touches of human feelings and the richness of the world surrounding him." Rudolf Khachatrian deliberately depicts the linkage with the real life. Shades and accessories are so drastically scarce that one can hardly be a judge of characters in his portraits of the 1970s. Nothing can he explained directly. Seemingly simple drawings all of a sudden pours into a dramatic story about Man. Each of his portraits makes us ponder on time, meaning fate and everlastingness of the inner world of a Man. No plot can be appealing to him unless it is a human feeling. As it may seem strange, he will turn to the plot later in his still-lives. He is in search of means of expressing himself in the character and psychology of the depicted model. He is heeding the advice of the ancient philosopher: a human being is the only criterion of everything. And we, his audience following his will find the complicated identities of our reality in his crystallized poetic forms. Trying to make the expression of his model complete the artist records to a special trick-he dresses his models in costumes of different epochs. Alongside with his certain hero he tells us his own parable. Here what tell us the portraits of the ethnographer L.A. Abramyan(1977) and the portrait of his wife(in shawl and garland of field flowers(1973)), Judith(1976), Solomei (1977) and others. His early works were exhibited in Moscow at the exhibition representing artist of the Transcaucasus in honour of the 5th anniversary of the formation of the USSR. Here he was kindly given a special place for his works. He was taken notice of by the artistic world. Later his personal exhibitions were held in Leningrad(1979), Odessa(1976), Moscow(1978, 1984), and Yerevan(1980, 1983). Everywhere he was a great success. His graphics were always distinguished by their monumentalizm. No wonder they are compared to Armenian khackhars. And what promoted greatly his success was his sincere devotion and worship of Man, for the essence of life and universe for him was Man himself. Very unique is his way of drawing. He never creates anything that has already been sensed and felt. Feelings are aroused while painting. This is what he calls links of an entity. He immediately starts from what will never be changed later-just from very essence. Like a sculptor carving his marble little by little he makes his dreams come true on the canvas. Linking all the details together as a whole in his mind, merging all them into one he creates his masterpieces. As for his heroes, they do not resemble the heroes of ancient legends; they are vivid, alive, flesh and blood people. What makes his portraits difficult to depict is the wholeness of it as Khachatrian tries to draw them in full size. He was never keen on seperating still lives from landscapes. From him they are the only means of expressing the nature as a whole. Still lives created in his studio remind us of the nature outside his windows. Sometimes very trivial objects on his table are connected with houses, trees, windows, and faraway sky with great imagination. Life gets special appraisal in his works and it is transmitted to his audience. It is his mighty liveliness that makes his art unique. In other words it is the whole mankind that is and will be his world as long as he draws.