Ashot Hovhannisyan

Ashot Garegini Hovhannisyan (Ioannisyan) (Russian: Иоаннисян, Ашот Гарегинович) (5 June 1887, Shusha - 30 June 1977, Yerevan) was a Soviet Armenian statesman, historian, academic of Science Academy of Armenia (1960). From 1922 to 1926 he was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia.

He was a Communist party member since 1906. Professor of Lazarian institute of Moscow (1918–19) and Yerevan State University.

In 1920-21 he was the Minister of Education of Armenian SSR. In 1936-37 Hovhannisyan was the deputy director of the Institute of History, Science Academy of USSR.

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