As part of National Library Week, a literary and press exhibition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Nikol Aghbalyan’s birth was opened in the main hall of the National Library of Armenia. Nikol Aghbalyan was a public-political figure, literary scholar, educator, member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), Minister of Education of the First Republic of Armenia, and a founding member of the "Hamazgayin" Armenian Educational and Cultural Society.

The exhibition features articles dedicated to N. Aghbalyan’s life and work, his authored works, books he edited and translated, reviews, and other valuable materials.

Nikol Aghbalyan was born in 1873 in Tiflis (now Tbilisi). He received his primary education at the Nersisian School in Tiflis and then continued his studies at the Gevorgian Seminary. He further pursued higher education at the universities of Moscow, Lausanne, and the Sorbonne. He worked as a teacher in Kaghzvan, Shushi, Tiflis, and other places. At the beginning of World War I, he became a member of the National Bureau, then the Council, and served as an organizer of volunteer battalions, focusing on the relocation of Armenian refugees. From 1918 to 1920, he was a member of the Armenian Parliament, and in 1919, he was appointed Minister of Education and Arts of the Republic of Armenia.

He was a member of the Vernatun and Armenian Writers’ Union. Nikol Aghbalyan contributed to periodicals such as Mourj, Horizons, Nor Hosank, Handes Monthly, and others. After the establishment of Soviet power in Armenia in 1921, he was first imprisoned and then exiled from Soviet Armenia. From 1930, he settled in Beirut and, together with Levon Shant, founded the Nshan Palanjian Seminary of the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society, where he taught until the end of his life. Nikol Aghbalyan passed away in 1947 in Beirut

Since 1991, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) “Nikol Aghbalyan” Student Union has been active in Yerevan. Additionally, Secondary School No. 19 is named after Nikol Aghbalyan.