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October 25, 1919 Vahan Teryan and his wife, an employee of the Armenian National Commissariat Anahit Shahidzhanyan, left Moscow. On this day, V.S. Teryan, a member of the Central Executive Committee, began his last business trip through Samara and Orenburg to Tashkent in order to proceed from there to Iran and Turkey to resolve the fate of his long-suffering people.

On October 27, Teryan and Anahit arrived in Samara. The couple stay at the National Hotel. The beginning of the hassle of continuing the journey, since there was no regular direct communication with Turkestan.

October 31 – Teryan's meeting with Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze. Teryan participates in the meeting of the provincial executive committee.

November 1 – Vahan Teryan, having caught a cold the day before, fell ill.

November 7 – A sick Teryan celebrates the second anniversary of the October Revolution at the hotel.

November 8 – Visit of Teryan by the Samara doctor Isaakianets. Teryan refuses to return to Moscow and decides to continue on his way.

November 11-17 – Teryan writes a number of letters to his friends while waiting for departure. On the same days, he creates the last poem "Drunk, drunk I am, my hops torment me…"

On November 18 – After illness, and then the hassle of leaving, Vahan Teryan, together with Anahit, board the military sanitary train No. 4, intended for departure to Turkestan. Upon boarding, an incident occurred with the commandant of the train, who refused to allow Teryan into the carriage, citing the lack of "special instructions".

November 18-22 – Teryan is awaiting the dispatch of a military ambulance train. The state of health is poor.

November 22-December 13 – A difficult journey from Samara to Orenburg in a poorly heated train devoid of any supplies. Three- to four-day parking at stations and sidings. Anahit has difficulty getting food for Teryan, who has started a tuberculous process in his intestines.

December 13-20 – Waiting for the military-sanitary train to be sent further to Tashkent.

December 19 – Anahit, on behalf of the sick Teryan, takes care of transferring to another train bound for Central Asia, and receives permission.

December 20 – Instead of the scheduled transfer to another train, Teryan, due to the deterioration of his health, is transported by sleigh to Orenburg, to house No. 32 on Grishkovskaya Street (now Chicherina), where Konstantin Ohanyan's family lived.

December 21 – Teryan feels much better at home during the day: he talks with his new acquaintances, listens to Anahit playing the piano. But in the evening, the disease takes over again.

December 22-23 – The patient Teryan reads, the deterioration of his general condition deprives him of this opportunity in the future.

December 28 – The first visit to Teryan by an Orenburg doctor; all the medical forces of the city were mobilized to fight the typhus epidemic, and calling a doctor turned out to be very difficult.

Between December 24 and 31 – A modest evening, convened by the owners of the house in order to cheer up Teryan; seriously ill, he enjoys listening to the playing of the tar and folk songs.

Between January 1 and January 4, 1920 – At Teryan's insistence, A. Shakhidzhanyan is busy in front of the Headquarters and the Revolutionary Military Council of the 1st Army

The Turkestan Front about leaving for Moscow. They are allocated a carriage for departure on January 7.

January 4 – Further deterioration of health.

January 6 – Doctors' consultation: the situation is hopeless.

January 7 – Death of Vahan Teryan.

January 8 (or 9) – V.S. Teryan's funeral at the old Orenburg cemetery.

Having been researching the life and work of V. Teryan for more than 35 years, the author of the message dedicated several books to the poet, namely:

Chapters from life. – Chelyabinsk: South Ural Publishing House. Publishing house, 1974. The book contains an essay "Meeting through the years". A story about the life, death and immortality of Vahan Teryan.

Vahan Teryan's last business trip. In Armenian. Yerevan: Sovetakan Grokh Publishing House, 1985.

First. Pages from the life of one district. – Moscow: Publishing House of Political Literature, 1985.

74 days before immortality or The last business trip of Vahan Teryan. – Yerevan: Hayastan Publishing House, 1990.

In Orenburg, the poet is remembered and honored. A monument was opened here in his honor and a museum was created, poetry festivals and days of Armenian culture are held.

The friendship of the Russian and Armenian peoples will grow and strengthen." (L.N. Bolshakov, "The Orenburg trace of Vahan Teryan" in the materials "Armenians in Orenburg region: history and modernity (materials of the scientific and practical conference)". Orenburg: OGAU Publishing Center, 2001. (The series "The Multinational world of Orenburg region", issue 11). Edited by Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor V.V. Amelin, pp. 14-16).

On May 6, 1984, the Vahan Teryan Museum was inaugurated at School No. 24 in Orenburg. Later, Vahan Teryan's grandson, a prominent specialist in international law, editor of the Armenian Bulletin newspaper published in Moscow and chairman of the board of the Phoenix publishing house Vahan Emin, an outstanding sculptor whose works are known all over the world, Friedrich Soghoyan and music connoisseur, veteran of the capital's radio journalism Anushvan Poghosyan, came to Orenburg. The museum's exposition contains the autograph of Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava, who is the grandson of Vahan Teryan on his mother's side.

Vahan Teryan died of tuberculosis in Orenburg shortly before his 35th birthday. He was buried there, but the exact location was lost. In 1964, Teryan's daughter brought the land from the Orenburg cemetery to Yerevan and buried it in the Komitas pantheon with a cenotaph installed.

Every year, events dedicated to his life are held in the Javakhk region in the village of Gandza, where he was born.

Streets in Yerevan, Gyumri and Orenburg have been named after him (since 1965).

The envelope of the USSR post in 1985.

In 2021, an exhibition hall and a house museum in his honor were opened in Vahan Teryan Gandza's native village. There is also a bust of the poet on the territory of the museum.