Name Stepan Pogosyan Nationality Armenian | ||
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Full Name Stepan Karapetovich Pogosyan (Poghosyan) Occupation historian and politician Profession Doctor of historical sciences, Professor Died May 19, 2012, Yerevan, Armenia | ||
Education Yerevan State University Succeeded by Aram Gaspar Sargsyan | ||
Stepan Karapetovich Pogosyan (Poghosyan) (Armenian: Ստեփան Կարապետի Պողոսյան; February 10, 1932 in Agakchi, Talin region, Armenia – May 17, 2012) was an Armenian historian and politician, a communist and social-democrat activist.
He studied at Yerevan State University. Then he ruled the state tele-radio-industry in Soviet Armenia for many years. From November, 1990 to May, 1991 he was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia, a member of Soviet Union Communist Party Central Committee (1990–91).
Poghosyan is a Doctor of historical sciences, Professor. He was an author of a number of books. He was also one of the leading members of Democratic Party of Armenia.
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