Genrikh Poghosyan

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Genrikh Poghosyan Հենրիք Պողոսյան
Secretary of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
In office February 1988 – 26 November 1991
Preceded by	Boris Kevorkov
Succeeded by	position abolished

Genrikh Poghosian (Armenian: Հենրիք Պողոսյան) was the second secretary of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast who took over the post on February 1988 after the dismissal of the highly unpopular Boris Kevorkov who had ruled from 1973 until 1988.^[1] Kevorkov was considered as subserviently loyal to Azerbaijani leaders in Baku and was resented by the Armenian community.^[2] Consequenly Kevorkov was removed from office and Genrikh Pogosian, who was much more popular among Armenians, took his place.^[3]

References

↑ Malkasian, Mark (1996), Gha-ra-bagh!, Wayne State University Press, p. 87, ISBN 0-8143-2604-8
↑ Kaufman, Stuart J. (2001), Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War, Cornell University Press, p. 59, ISBN 0-8014-8736-6
↑ De Waal, Thomas (2004), Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War, NYU Press, p. 59, ISBN 0-8147-1945-7

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Name	Poghosian, Genrikh
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Short description	Soviet Armenian politician
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