Both University educated, Hrayr Nazlukhanyan is an engineer, and his wife Marietta, a school teacher. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, they both found themselves out of work. They bought a plot of land and built a home near Margahovik where they raised 3 children, all of whom went to the Yerevan State University at Vanadzor, Armenia's third city (pop: 80,000)