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Here's the sole quartet by Armenian composer Hrachya Spiridonovich Melikyan, who died fighting in WWII. He was the son of a famous Armenian folk composer and ethnographer (see http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... CD4Q7gEwAQ ). Hrachya's biography and works list can be found at:

http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... CDcQ7gEwAA

For a while, I was confused because there is another Hrachya Melikyan who was active during the 1970s-2000s and wrote some remarkable chamber and solo works that were way more avant-garde in style than the works of the above composer. This younger (actually born after the war) composer's bio is at the following link (I believe he passed away in recent years):

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... T4ZCPrNyhw

Now that nobody's confused...here is the quartet by the composer who was killed in the war. There is actually a mp3 of this piece floating around (see Unsung Composers forum), ripped from a LP of this composer's works that must have been released as a sort of tribute:

Hrachya Spiridonovich MELIKYAN (1913-1941) (Armenia)
String Quartet (1938) (NMS)

This composer was one of Shostakovich's composition students, and was every bit as prolific at writing string quartets as his teacher. Levitin wrote at least seventeen by the time he passed away in 1993:

Yury Abramovich LEVITIN (Ukraine)
2nd update:
String Quartet no. 9, op. 66 (1968) String Quartet no. 10, op. 73 (1971) String Quartet no. 11, op. 80 (1974) String Quartet no. 12, op. 86 (197?)

Here's another of the many quartets by Golubev, this time one of the only ones that has ever been recorded (on a Melodya LP):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHJsKySGm6U

Yevgeny Kirillovich GOLUBEV
String Quartet no. 10, op. 59 Update:
String Quartet no. 11, op. 61 (1972)
http://www.mediafire.com/?jkaacjjqgtnnzns (greyscale)

A string quartet from Central Asia:

Chary NURYMOV (Turkmenistan)
String Quartet no. 1 (1980)

http://www.mediafire.com/?58bx8oh13r3t4rf (greyscale, needs a squeeze)

Sibley has just made available the score for Aleksandr Grechaninov's second string quartet, opus 70.
http://hdl.handle.net/1802/27210

This compliments the set of parts released earlier:
http://hdl.handle.net/1802/18271

Also well worth a mention:-

Othmar Schoeck:-
Publication Name: Streichquartett, D-dur, für 2 Violinen, Bratsche, und Violoncello, op. 23.
https://urresearch.rochester.edu/instit ... onNumber=1

Previously only the parts were available.

Ruperto Chapí (Spain 1851 - 1909)
String quartet Nº1 (1903)
Primer Cuarteto de Cuerdas
(full score) (nms)
Source: Biblioteca Nacional de España

This new upload to IMSLP might be of interest to Pianophilia's numerous Alkanists:-
http://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_in ... alentin%29

Thanks for the share, Tim! Definitely interesting.

German Germanovich GALYNIN
String Quartet no. 1 (1947)