The legendary Larisa Hovsepyan is a heroine mother who adopted and raised 19 children of different nationalities.
Having been widowed after half a year of marriage, Larisa firmly decided not to marry again, a few years later she decided to adopt a child and live a happy life. In Soviet times, almost no children were abandoned in Armenia, so there was absolutely no need for orphanages. To adopt her first son, Larisa went to Lithuania (Republic of Lithuania) and so, one after another, Larisa Hovsepyan gave motherly love to 19 children from different parts of the Soviet Union.
Larisa was often told that she managed to change as many as 19 lives, but the woman herself only smiled and admitted that it was her children who changed her life…
On December 17, 2012, Larisa Hovsepyan died surrounded by her 19 children. The funeral took place in her native Yerevan, in addition to children and relatives, hundreds of unknown people brought flowers to her grave, for whom she had been a living role model for so many years.