Yakov Zarobyan Explained

Yakov Zarobyan
Birth Name:Hakob Nikitayi Zarobian
Office1:First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia
Term Start1:1960
Term End1:1966
Predecessor1:Suren Tovmasyan
Successor1:Anton Kochinyan
Office2:First Deputy Premier of the Armenian SSR
Term Start2:June 1953
Term End2:July 1958
Office3:Deputy Minister of Security of the Armenian SSR
Term Start3:April 1952
Term End3:1953
Birth Date:September 25, 1908
Birth Place:Artvin, Russian Empire, (now in Turkey)
Death Place:Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Party:Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1932–1966)

Yakov Nikitayi Zarobyan (Armenian: Յակով Նիկիտայի Զարոբյան; 25 September 1908 – 11 April 1980[1]) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1960 to 1966.

Biography

Zarobyan was born in 1908 in Artvin, then in the Russian Empire, now in Turkey. Together with his family, he moved further into Russia during the First World War. From 1925–1941 he worked in Kharkiv as a factory worker. In 1932 he joined the Communist Party and became the party's committee secretary of the main Kharkiv factory in 1939. In 1949 he became the head of the factory's department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

He became Secretary of the Yerevan City Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia in July 1950 and Deputy Minister of Security of the Armenian SSR in April 1952, served as First Deputy Premier of Armenia from June 1953 to July 1958 and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1960 to 66. He was dismissed in February 1966 partly as a result of the huge demonstrations in Yerevan in April 1965, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. In 1966, he was made Soviet Deputy Minister for Electrification, effectively a demotion, and was succeeded by Anton Kochinyan.[2]

He died in Moscow in 1980.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Armenian SSR . freenet.am . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110531152831/http://freenet.am/~grighak/Armenia_files/Rulers/Armenian%20SSR.htm . 2011-05-31.
  2. Maike Lehmann, "Apricot Socialism: The National Past, the Soviet Project, and the Imagining of Community in Late Soviet Armenia," Slavic Review 74 (Spring 2015), p. 29.