Yeghishe Astsatryan

Yeghishe Astsatryan
Եղիշե Ասծատրյան
Yeghishe Astsatryan's plaque in Yerevan
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Armenian SSR
In office
December 1962 – 23 December 1965
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia
In office
24 December 1962 – 5 February 1966
Personal details
Born
Yeghishe Tevosi Astsatryan

2 September 1911[1]
Chartar, Shusha uezd, Elizavetpol Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedDecember 2, 2008(2008-12-02) (aged 97)[1][2]
Yerevan, Armenia
NationalitySoviet Armenian
Political partyCPSU
Occupationpolitician, statesman

Yeghishe Tevosi Astsatryan (Armenian: Եղիշե Թևոսի Ասծատրյան; 2 September 1911 – 2 December 2008) was a Soviet Armenian politician and statesman who served as Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Armenia under First Secretary Yakov Zarobyan. A native of Chartar village in Nagorno-Karabakh,[3] Astsatryan was a prominent figure in Armenia during the Khrushchev Thaw. He maintained close ties with Anastas Mikoyan and regularly consulted with him on affairs in Soviet Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Sargsyan, Suren. "Եղիշե Ասծատրյանի հիշատակին: Մարդ լեգենդը". national-idea.am (in Armenian). Archived from the original on 17 April 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
  2. ^ "Telegram of Condolences to Astsatryans' Family". National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia. 3 December 2008. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
  3. ^ Hambardzumyan, Viktor, ed. (1974). "Ասծատրյան, Եղիշե Թևոսի". Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia (in Armenian). Vol. 1. Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences. p. 565.
  4. ^ Shakarian, Pietro A. (2025). Anastas Mikoyan: An Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 84, 103. ISBN 978-0253073556.

Further reading

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