Anton Kochinyan

Anton Yervandi Kochinyan (Armenian: Անտոն Երվանդի Քոչինյան; 25 October 1913 – 1 December 1990) was a Soviet Armenian politician. He served as Chairman of the Armenian Council of Ministers from 1952 to 1966, and as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1966 until his retirement in 1974.^[1]

Anton Kochinyan
Անտոն Քոչինյան
Kochinyan on a 2013 Armenian stamp
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia
In office 5 February 1966 – 27 November 1974
Preceded by	Yakov Zarobyan
Succeeded by	Karen Demirchyan
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
In office 20 November 1952 – 5 February 1966
Preceded by	Sahak Karapetyan
Succeeded by	Badal Muradyan
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Armenian SSR
In office 1954–1958
Preceded by	Gevorg Hovhannisian
Succeeded by	Balabek Martirosian
Personal details
Born	Anton Yervandi Kochinyan October 25, 1913 Shagali, Borchaly uezd, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	December 1, 1990(1990-12-01) (aged 77) Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Soviet Armenian
Political party	CPSU
Occupation	politician

Biography

In September 1966, Kochinyan, together with Badal Muradyan, unsuccessfully appealed to the Soviet central government in Moscow for the unification of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia.^[2] Kochinyan was later succeeded as Armenia's first secretary by Karen Demirchyan in 1974.

Publications

• Kochinyan, Anton (1960). Armenia: Big Strides in an Ancient Land. London: Soviet Booklets.
• Kochinyan, Anton (2008). Անավարտ հուշեր. Yerevan: Հեղինակային հրատարակություն.