Fadey Sargsyan Passed Away Aged 86

FADEY SARGSYAN PASSED AWAY AGED 86

armradio.am
11.01.2010 14:42

Adviser to RA Prime Minister Fadey Sargsyan passed away on January
10 at the age of 86.

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.