Stepanos Sargsi Malkhasiants was an Armenian academician, philologist, linguist, and lexicographer. An expert in classical Armenian literature, Malkhasiants wrote the critical editions and translated the works of many classical Armenian historians into modern Armenian and contributed seventy years of his life to the advancement of the study of the Armenian language.

Akhaltsikhe, formerly known as Lomsia, is a small city in Georgia's southwestern region of Samtskhe–Javakheti. It is the administrative center of the Akhaltsikhe Municipality and the Samtskhe–Javakheti region. It is situated on both banks of the small river Potskhovi, which divides the city between the old city in the north and new in the south.