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Yerevan

Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...

) was a Soviet Armenian politician.

He was Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1952 to 1966, and the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia

Armenian SSR

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 from 1966 to 1974. He pleaded unsuccessfully with central government in Moscow

Moscow

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 for the unification of Karabakh

Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast

The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast was an autonomous oblast within the borders of the Azerbaijan SSR, mostly inhabited by ethnic Armenians and created on July 7, 1923. According to Karl R. DeRouen it was created as an enclave so that a narrow strip of land would separate it from Armenia proper....

 with Armenia

Armenia

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. He was succeeded by Karen Demirchyan

Karen Demirchyan

Karen Demirchyan was a Soviet Armenian communist, First Secretary of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1974 to 1988 and later independent politician...

in 1974.

External links

• Armenia: big strides in an ancient land by Anton Ervandi Kochinyan