BIOGRAPHIC DATA OF RA PRIME MINISTER ANDRANIK MARGARIAN
YEREVAN, MARCH 26, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Prime Minister of
the Republic of Armenia Andranik Margarian died of the heart attack on
March 25.
RA Prime Minister, Chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia
Andranik Margarian’s biographic data:
He was born on June 12, 1951, in Yerevan, accepted the Prime
Minister’s post on May 12, 2000.
He studied at the Technical Cybernetics Faculty of the Yerevan
Polytechnical Institute in 1967-1972, getting qualification of an
calculators’ engineer.
He worked as scientific worker, senior engineer at the Yerevan branch
of the All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of Gas Industry in
1972-1974, as chief engineer at the Energy Scientific-Research
Institute in 1977-1978, as the chief of the electronic calculators
department at the Electrotechnical Factory in 1978-1979, as the chief
of the electronics departmnent at the Republican Information
Accounting Center of the Ministry of Trade in 1979-1990, as the
information department chief at the State Department on Special
Programs in 1990-1994, as an assistant researches at the State
Engineering University of Armenia in 1994-1995.
He was a deputy of the National Assembly of the first convention in
1995-1999, was again elected a NA deputy in 1999, was the head of the
"Miasnutiun" (Unity) faction made the majority. He was the RA Prime
Minister from May, 2000, after the 2003 NA elections Prime Minister
A. Margarian continued officiating, heading the coalition government
formed as a result of the elections.
He was engaged in the policy from 1965. From 1968 he was a member of
the National United Party secretly functioning during the Soviet
years, he was a NUP Council member from 1973. He presented himself
with critism of the Soviet totalitarian system, from the positions of
protection of the Hay Dat and saw the Armenian people’s future in
conditions of existence of a democratic, independent state. He was
arrested in 1974 for spreading his ideas and promoting activity and
condemned to two-year imprisonment. He was from 1992 a member of the
Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), first registered in the Republic of
Armenia and the ideological inheritor of National United Party, he was
the RPA Council Chairman in 1993-1997 and 1998-2005. He was the RPA
Chairman in 1997-1998 and was again elected the RPA Chairman in
2005. He was a member of the Yerkrapah (Defender of the Land)
Voluntary Union (YVU) from 1998, then was a member of the YVU Board.
By the RA President’s decree, he was awarded with the Surb (Saint)
Mesrop Mashtots order on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of
proclaiming the independence of the Republic of Armenia, for the great
contribution in improvement of the statehood and development of the
economy. He was also awarded the RA Defence Ministry’s "V. Sargsian,"
"G. Nzhdeh" medals, YVU "V. Sargsian" order, RA Police "Aram Manukian"
medal, Fridtjof Nansen fund’s "F. Nansen" medal.
Married, has two daughters, one son and five grandchildren.