Ashot Hovhannisyan

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.

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, Russian Empire
Died	June 30, 1972(1972-06-30) (aged 85) Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
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)

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