Yakov Nikitayi Zarobyan (; 25 September 1908 – 11 April 1980) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1960 to 1966.

Biography

Zarobyan was born in 1908 in

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, now in

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. Together with his family, he moved further into

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during the

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. From 1925–1941 he worked in

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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

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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

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. 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," ''

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'' 74 (Spring 2015), p. 29. He died in

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in 1980.

References

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Armenia:The Survival of a Nation
1908 births 1980 deaths People from Artvin People from Batum oblast Members of the Central Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union First secretaries of the Armenian Communist Party Fourth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Fifth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Sixth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Party leaders of the Soviet Union Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour {{Soviet-stub Recipients of the Order of the Red Star Armenian atheists