The First Secretary of the Nagorno–Karabakh regional branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the position of highest authority in the Nagorno-Karabakh AO in the Azerbaijan SSR of the Soviet Union. The position was created in July 1923, and abolished on August 27, 1990. The First Secretary was a de facto appointed position usually by the Politburo or the General Secretary himself.
List of First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Nagorno–Karabakh
Name | Term of Office | Life years | |
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Start | End | ||
First Secretaries of the Oblast Committee of the Communist Party | |||
Sero Manutsyan | July 1923 | December 1923 | |
Akop Bendzhanyan | December 1923 | April 1924 | |
Nikolai Sarkisov | April 1924 | October 1924 | |
Hayk Silanyan | October 1924 | 1925 | ?–1938 |
Artvazd Saakyants | 1925 | 1929 | 1895–1939 |
M.K. Danilyan | 1929 | December 1929 | |
Ashot Karamyan | 1929 | May 1930 | 1898–? |
? | May 1930 | 1937 | |
Mikhail Manukyants | 1937 | 1940 | 1909–1968 |
? | 1940 | 1942 | |
Yegishe Grigoryan | October 1942 | 1946 | 1902–? |
Tigran Grigoryan | 1946 | ? | |
Yegishe Grigoryan | 1952 | December 1958 | 1902–? |
Nikolay Shakhnazarov | December 1958 | October 1962 | 1908– |
Gurgen Melkumyan | October 1962 | June 1973 | 1915– |
Boris Kevorkov | June 1973 | February 24, 1988 | 1932–1998 |
Genrikh Poghosyan | February 24, 1988 | January 20, 1989 | 1931–2000 |
Vagan Gabrielyan | January 20, 1989 | August 27, 1990 | 1936– |
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- [1] World Statesmen.org