Sarkis Kasyan
Armenian politician
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| Intro | Armenian politician | |||
| Places | Armenia | |||
| was | Journalist Revolutionary Politician | |||
| Work field | Activism Journalism Military Politics | |||
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| Birth | 28 January 1876, Shusha, Azerbaijan | |||
| Death | December 1937 (aged 61 years) | |||
| Star sign | Aquarius | |||
| Politics: | Communist Party Of Armenia | |||
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Sarkis Hovhannesi Kasyan or Kasian (Qosyan, Armenian: Սարգիս Հովհաննեսի Կասյան (Քոսեան), January 16, 1876, Shusha - 1937) was a Soviet Armenian statesman, politician and journalist.
Biography
Kasyan graduated from Leipzig commercial institute and Berlin University in 1904. PhD on commercial and philosophical sciences. He was a Communist party member from 1905. One of the founders of Armenian bolshevik press in 1905, the leader of Tbilisi communist party organization in 1912–14. In 1919-20 - chairman of Russian Communist (Bolshevik) party Armenian committee. Since the November, 1920 - a member of Armenian Communist Party Central Committee and chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Armenia, signed the declaration of Sovetization of Armenia. On December 2, 1920 V.I. Lenin sent him a telegram welcoming the establishment of Soviet Armenia.
In 1927-31 he was the chairman of Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic's Central Executive Committee (government), in 1928-30 - also the chairman of Armenian SSR Central Executive Committee. He was an elected member of all-Soviet Central Executive Committee.