Badal Amayakovich Muradyan (1915–1991) was the

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of the

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(1966–1972).

Background

Badal Muradyan was born in 1915, in Vardashen village of Armavir marz, Armenia. He attended the Yerevan Polytechnics University and became a chemist. Since around 1956, he worked as the first secretary in the Yerevan city committee of the ACP (Armenian Communist Party). He become the Prime Minister of the Armenian SSR from 1966 to 1972, during Brezhnev's " stagnation." He stepped down in 1972, officially due to the "state of his health." From 1976 to 1981, he worked in the "Nairit" factory in Kirov,

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. He died in 1991.

Memorial

There is plaque on Moskovyan street in

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, Armenia for his memorial. There is a street named after him in

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References

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