Stepan Pogosyan | |
Birth Name: | Stepan Karapetovich Pogosyan (Poghosyan) |
Office1: | First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia |
Term Start1: | 30 November 1990 |
Term End1: | 14 May 1991 |
Predecessor1: | Vladimir Movsisyan |
Successor1: | Aram Sargsyan |
Office2: | Member of Soviet Union Communist Party Central Committee |
Term Start2: | 1990 |
Term End2: | 1991 |
Birth Date: | February 10, 1932 |
Birth Place: | Agakchi, Talin, Armenia, Transcaucasian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Death Place: | Yerevan, Armenia |
Nationality: | Armenian |
Alma Mater: | Yerevan State University |
Party: | Communist Party of ArmeniaDemocratic Party of Armenia |
Occupation: | historian and politician |
Profession: | Doctor of historical sciences, Professor |
Native Name Lang: | hy |
Stepan Karapetovich Pogosyan (Poghosyan) (Armenian: Ստեփան Պողոսյան; February 10, 1932 – May 17, 2012) was an Armenian historian and politician, a communist and social-democrat activist.[1]
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 was 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.