Aghasi Khanjian

Aghasi Khanjian
Khanjian in 1934
First Secretary of the
Communist Party of Armenia
In office
May 1930 – July 9, 1936
Preceded byHaykaz Kostanyan
Succeeded byAmatuni Vardapetyan
Personal details
BornJanuary 30, 1901
Van, Ottoman Empire
DiedJuly 9, 1936(1936-07-09) (aged 35)
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political partyRussian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1919–1936)

Aghasi Ghevondi Khanjian (Armenian: Աղասի Ղևոնդի Խանջյան; Russian: Агаси Гевондович Ханджян, romanizedAgasi Gevondovich Khandzhyan; January 30, 1901 – July 9, 1936) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from May 1930 to July 1936.[1]

  1. ^ Matossian, Mary Kilbourne (1975). "Armenia and the Armenians". In Katz, Zev; Rogers, Rosemarie; Harned, Frederic (eds.). Handbook of Major Soviet Nationalities. New York: Free Press. pp. 146–147. ISBN 9780029170908.