Ashot Hovhannisyan

Ashot Hovhannisyan on a 2012 Armenian stamp

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.

References

• Hovhannisyan in Great Soviet Encyclopedia

Leaders of Armenia since 1918 Chairmen of the First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920) Avetik Sahakyan Avetis Aharonyan Hovhannes Katchaznouni First secretaries of the Communist Party of the Armenian SSR (1920-1991) Sergey Lukashin Ashot Hovhannisyan Haik Ovsepyan Aykaz Kostanyan Aghasi Khanjian Amatuni Vartapetyan Grigory Arutyunov Suren Tovmasyan Yakov Zarobyan Anton Kochinyan Karen Demirchyan Suren Harutyunyan Vladimir Movsisyan Stepan Pogosyan Aram Sargsyan Presidents of the Republic of Armenia (1991-) Levon Ter-Petrosyan Robert Kocharyan Serzh Sargsyan