Ashot Hovhannisyan

Ashot Hovhannisyan

Ashot Hovhannisyan on a 2012 Armenian stamp
Deputy Director of the Institute of History, Science Academy of USSR
In office
1936–1937
First Secretary of the
Communist Party of Armenia
In office
1922–1926
Minister of Education of Armenian SSR
In office
1920–1921
Personal details
Born Ashot Garegini Hovhannisyan (Ioannisyan)
5 June 1887
Shusha
Died June 30, 1972(1972-06-30) (aged 85)
Yerevan
Nationality Soviet Armenian
Political party Communist party (1906-1972)
Occupation Professor of Lazarian institute of Moscow (1918–19) and Yerevan State University.
Profession Statesman, historian, Academic of Science Academy of Armenia (1960)

Ashot Garegini Hovhannisyan (Ioannisyan) (Armenian: Աշոտ Գարեգինի Հովհաննիսյան; Russian: Иоаннисян, Ашот Гарегинович) (5 June 1887, Shusha – 30 June 1972, 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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