Ashot Hovhannisian

Ashot Garegini Hovhannisian (Armenian: Աշոտ Գարգինի Հովհաննիսյան; Russian: Ашот Гарегинович Иоаннисян, Ashot Gareginovich Ioannisyan; June 17, 1887  June 30, 1972) was an Armenian Marxist historian, theorist and Communist official.

Ashot Hovhannisian
Աշոտ Հովհաննիսյան
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia
In office
January 1922  July 1927
Preceded byAskanaz Mravyan
Succeeded byHayk Ovsepyan
1st Minister of Education of Soviet Armenia
In office
December 1920  1921
Preceded byposition established
Succeeded byPoghos Makintsian
Personal details
Born(1887-06-17)June 17, 1887
Shusha, Shusha uezd, Elizavetpol Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedJune 30, 1972(1972-06-30) (aged 85)
Yerevan, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
NationalityArmenian
Political partyRSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1906–1918)
Russian Communist Party (1918–1937)
Alma materUniversity of Munich
OccupationScholar, revolutionary, official
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