BIOGRAPHY OF RA NA VICE PRESIDENT SAMVEL NIKOYAN
National Assembly of RA
May 19 2009
Armenia
Samvel Nikoyan was born on February 13, 1958 in the village of
Sarnaghbyur in the Ani region (now Shirak marz).
In 1982 he graduated from K. Marx Yerevan Polytechnic Institute, in
1987 – Armenian branch of Marxism-Leninism University adjunct to USSR
Central Committee. He is engineer-mechanic. He was awarded Andranik
Ozanian medal of the Ministry of Defense (2005), and commemorative
of RA Prime Minister (2006).
1982-1990 he worked as an engineer-constructor, and later as a senior
engineer, head of division, deputy head of production unit and head
of production unit in the Yerevan Hydro Apparatus Plant. In 1995
he was deputy chief engineer in the Yerevan Experimental Machinery
Plant. 1998-2003 he was head of division in the Chamber of Commerce
and Industry of Armenia. 1998-2003 he was deputy director of Haymamul
(Armenian Media) CJSC. He was involved in production of ammunition and
their delivery during the years of Artsakh freedom fighting He was a
member of National United Party (NUP) acting underground in the USSR,
later member of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA). He is a member
of RPA board.
2003-2007 he was a deputy in the NA (proportional system, RPA.). He
was a member of the NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations. He
was a member of Ad-Hoc Committee Studying the Effectiveness of the
Use of Loans, Credits, Grants and Humanitarian Aid Received from
Foreign States and International Organizations. He was a member of
the Armenian delegation of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
On May 12, 2007 he was elected a deputy of the National Assembly by
the proportional system from the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA). He
was a member of the NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations. He
was a member of NA Ad-Hoc Counting Committee. He is Chairman of Ad-hoc
Committee on the Events Occurred on 1-2 March 2008 in Yerevan and Their
Reasons of the National Assembly. He is Head of RA NA delegation in
Inter-Parliamentary Union. He is Secretary of RPA faction. He is a
member of RPA board.
On May 18, 2009 he was elected Vice President of the National Assembly
of the Republic of Armenia.
He is married, and he has three children.