FADEY SARGSYAN DIES AGED 86
ArmInfo
2010-01-11 15:03:00
ArmInfo. Adviser to RA Prime Minister Fadey Sargsyan passed away
on January 10 at the age of 86. The Prime Minister charged setting
up an ad hoc commission to organize funerals. Fadey Sargsyan was
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Armenian SSR (1977-1989),
parliamentarian (1995-1999) and major general. He graduated from
Leningrad Military Academy after S.M. Budyonov (1946).
He made researches in radio electronics, computer engineering, and
automatic control systems.
Fadey Sargsyan held different leading positions in the Scientific
Technical Committee of the Central Rocket Artillery Administration
of the USSR Ministry of Defence (1946 – 1959), was Director of
Yerevan Scientific Research Institute of Mathematical Machines
(YSRIMM) (1963-1977), Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the
Armenian SSR (1977-1989), Academician-secretary of the Division of
physico-mathematical and technical sciences of the National Academy
of Sciences of Armenia (1989- 1993), and President of the National
Academy of Sciences of Armenia (1993-2006).
He had been Adviser to the Prime Minister of Armenia since 2006,
the Public Radio of Armenia reported.