GOVERNMENT APPOINTS WOMAN AS GOVERNOR OF SHIRAK PROVINCE
ARMENPRESS
Jul 12 2007
YEREVAN, JULY 12, ARMENPRESS; The government appointed today Lida
Nanian as governor of northwestern province of Shirak. Ms. Nanian is
the first woman to head an Armenian province. The government press
office said she was proposed to the post by the ruling Republican
party.
Ms. Nanian was born in 1948 in Azerbaijan. In 1968 she graduated from
the economy department of Yerevan State University.
Before the new appointment she was head of the Gyumri tax
department. She is married and has two children.