Anton Kochinyan

Anton Kochinyan
Անտոն Քոչինյան
Kochinyan on a 2013 Armenian stamp
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia
In office
5 February 1966 – 27 November 1974
Preceded byYakov Zarobyan
Succeeded byKaren Demirchyan
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
In office
20 November 1952 – 5 February 1966
Preceded bySahak Karapetyan
Succeeded byBadal Muradyan
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Armenian SSR
In office
1954–1958
Preceded byGevorg Hovhannisian
Succeeded byBalabek Martirosian
Personal details
Born
Anton Yervandi Kochinyan

October 25, 1913
Shagali, Borchaly uezd, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedDecember 1, 1990(1990-12-01) (aged 77)
Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
NationalitySoviet Armenian
Political partyCPSU
Occupationpolitician

Anton Yervandi Kochinyan (Armenian: Անտոն Երվանդի Քոչինյան; 25 October 1913 – 1 December 1990) was a Soviet Armenian politician. He served as Chairman of the Armenian Council of Ministers from 1952 to 1966, and as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1966 until his retirement in 1974.[1]

Biography

In September 1966, Kochinyan, together with Badal Muradyan, unsuccessfully appealed to the Soviet central government in Moscow for the unification of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia.[2] Kochinyan was later succeeded as Armenia's first secretary by Karen Demirchyan in 1974.

Publications

  • Kochinyan, Anton (1960). Armenia: Big Strides in an Ancient Land. London: Soviet Booklets.
  • Kochinyan, Anton (2008). Անավարտ հուշեր. Yerevan: Հեղինակային հրատարակություն.

References

  1. ^ Harutyunyan, Avag Aramaisovich (21 September 2023). "Кочинян Антон Ервандович". Большая российская энциклопедия (in Russian). Retrieved 29 July 2025.
  2. ^ Shakarian, Pietro A. (2025). Anastas Mikoyan: An Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 105–106. ISBN 978-0253073556.

Further reading

  • Astsatryan, Yeghishe T. (2004). XX դար. Հայաստանի կառուցման ճանապարհին (in Armenian). Yerevan: Edit Print.
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