Yakov Zarobyan
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| name = Yakov Zarobyan
| birth_name = Hakob Nikitayi Zarobian
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| office1 = First Secretary of the {{-}}Communist Party of Armenia
| primeminister1 =
| term_start1 = 1960
| term_end1 = 1966
| predecessor1 = Suren Tovmasyan
| successor1 = Anton Kochinyan
| office2 = First Deputy Premier of the Armenian SSR
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| term_start2 = June 1953
| term_end2 = July 1958
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| office3 = Deputy Minister of Security of the Armenian SSR
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| term_start3 = April 1952
| term_end3 = 1953
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| birth_date = September 25, 1908
| birth_place = Artvin, Russian Empire, (now in Turkey)
| death_date = {{death date and age|1980|4|11|1908|9|25}}
| death_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
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| party = Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1932–1966)
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Yakov Nikitayi Zarobyan ({{langx|hy|Յակով Նիկիտայի Զարոբյան}}; 25 September 1908 – 11 April 1980{{cite web |url=http://freenet.am/~grighak/Armenia_files/Rulers/Armenian%20SSR.htm |title=Armenian SSR |website=freenet.am |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531152831/http://freenet.am/~grighak/Armenia_files/Rulers/Armenian%20SSR.htm |archive-date=2011-05-31}} ) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1960 to 1966.
Biography
Zarobyan was born in 1908 in Artvin, then in the Russian Empire, now in Turkey. Together with his family, he moved further into Russia during the First World War. From 1925–1941 he worked in Kharkiv as a factory worker. In 1932 he joined the Communist Party and became the party's committee secretary of the main Kharkiv factory in 1939. In 1949 he became the head of the factory's department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
He became Secretary of the Yerevan City Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia in July 1950 and Deputy Minister of Security of the Armenian SSR in April 1952, served as First Deputy Premier of Armenia from June 1953 to July 1958 and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1960 to 66. He was dismissed in February 1966 partly as a result of the huge demonstrations in Yerevan in April 1965, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. In 1966, he was made Soviet Deputy Minister for Electrification, effectively a demotion, and was succeeded by Anton Kochinyan.Maike Lehmann, "Apricot Socialism: The National Past, the Soviet Project, and the Imagining of Community in Late Soviet Armenia," Slavic Review 74 (Spring 2015), p. 29.
He died in Moscow in 1980.
References
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Sources
- [https://archive.today/20120713022548/http://armenia-survival.50megs.com/Survival_Biographies.htm Armenia:The Survival of a Nation]
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Category:People from Batum oblast
Category:First secretaries of the Armenian Communist Party
Category:Fourth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Category:Fifth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Category:Sixth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Category:Party leaders of the Soviet Union
Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
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