Bella Kocharyan Explained

Bella Kocharyan
Office1:First Lady of Armenia
President1:Robert Kocharyan
Term Label1:In role
Term Start1:9 April 1998
Term End1:9 April 2008
Predecessor1:Lyudmila Ter-Petrosyan
Birth Date:31 January 1954
Birth Place:Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Soviet Union
Nationality:Armenian
Spouse:Robert Kocharyan
Children:Sedrak, Gayane, Levon

Bella Kocharyan (Armenian: Բելլա Քոչարյան; born 31 January 1954, Stepanakert) is the wife of former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and is the former First Lady of Armenia.[1]

Kocharyan graduated the Yerevan Medical Institute's Sanitary-Hygienic Medicine Department in 1978. She worked first as a doctor-bacteriologist and then as a doctor-epidemiologist at the sanitary-epidemiological station in Nagorno-Karabakh. She also held the position of the deputy chief physician of the regional sanitary-epidemiological station and during her final years there (1991-1993) she headed a department at the station.

Currently, she is the Honorary President of the All-Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry and the Honorary President of the Armenian Branch of Vladimir Spivakov's international benevolent fund Talented Children of Armenia.

Notes and References

  1. News: First Lady Bella Kocharyan and Mikhail Shvidkoy attend the "Armenia Sacra" exhibition. https://web.archive.org/web/20110720081057/http://www.armradio.am/news/?part=soc&id=10721. dead. 20 July 2011. 3 January 2011. Public Radio of Armenia. 10 March 2007.