Aram Buniatyan (born 1839) was the fourth

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Biography

Aram Buniatyan was born in 1839 in the family of a soldier. He received an education at the Lazarian Seminary in

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but left it incomplete. In 1859, at the age of 20, he joined the service in the

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provincial administration. Five years later, he moved to

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to do the same job. Back in 1884, he was elected a member of the Yerevan city duma, acting mayor under Barsegh Geghamyan. Ten years later, in 1895, he was elected mayor of Yerevan, replacing Levon Tigranyants. He held the position for one year, until 1896, after which he left the job due to health problems.

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