Yervand Zakharyan
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Armenians
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politician and the former mayor of the Armenian capital Yerevan
Yerevan
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. He is a member of the country's Republican Party
Republican Party of Armenia
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and was the 8th mayor of the Armenian capital since Armenia's
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
independence from the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
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in 1991.
Biography
Zakharyan was born in the village of Saler in the ShamkirShamkir
Shamkir is a rayon in Azerbaijan. It is located in the northwestern part of the Azerbaijan Republic. The rayon was previously called "Shamkhor" during the Soviet rule and was renamed to Shamkir only in 1991 after restoration of independence of Azerbaijan. The district was established in 1930...
region of the Azerbaijan SSR
Azerbaijan SSR
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. He worked in the Yerevan trust "Basemetalsconstruct" from 1962 to 1963 and as a rigger in the plant "Razdanconstruct" in 1963 to 1964. He served as an engineer and chief of the zone of the constructional administration "Warmconstrict" during the rest of the 1960s, while simultaneously attending Yerevan Polytechnic Institute (where he graduated from 1968). He attended the Management Institute of the Moscow Academy of National Economy from 1987 to 1988. He completed his candidate thesis in 1991, obtaining a degree of candidate of science in economics.
After Armenia became independent, Zakharyan assumed the position of Armenia's deputy minister of energy. In 1998, he became the Minister of Transport and in 2000 was appointed deputy minister of the State Revenues, then was overappointed the Minister of Transport and Communication. The following year, he became the Minister of the State Revenues and in 2002. He was then appointed mayor of Yerevan
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...
in 2003. In 2006, he started the non-profit "Shushi Revival" fund to help revitalize the city of Shushi
Shusha
Shusha , also known as Shushi is a town in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus. It has been under the control of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic since its capture in 1992 during the Nagorno-Karabakh War...
in the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Zakharyan is married and has three children.