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Leonard Petrosyan

Armenian politician (1952-1999)

Summary

Armenian politician (1952-1999)

Field	Value
name	Leonard Petrosyan
native_name	Լեոնարդ Պետրոսյան
image	Leonard-petrosyan.jpg
office	President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Acting)
predecessor	Robert Kocharyan
successor	Arkadi Ghukasyan
office2	President of the National Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh
predecessor2	position established
party	Independent
office1	Prime Minister the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
predecessor1	Robert Kocharyan
successor1	Zhirayr Poghosyan
successor2	Artur Mkrtchyan
birth_date
birth_place	Martuni, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
death_date
death_place	Yerevan, Armenia
death_cause	Assassination by firearm
alma_mater	Yerevan Institute of National Economy
term_start	20 March 1997
term_end	8 September 1997
term_start1	December 1994
term_end1	June 1998
term_start2	12 September 1991
term_end2	8 January 1992
office3	Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia
term_start3	1998
term_end3	27 October 1999
office4	Deputy Defence Minister of Armenia

Leonard Petrosyan (; 11 October 1952 – 27 October 1999) was an Armenian politician who was the acting President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic from 20 March 1997 to 8 September 1997. He also served as Prime Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic from December 1994 to June 1998. He was killed in the 1999 Armenian parliament shooting while serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia.

Life

Leonard Petrosyan was born in Martuni, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan SSR, where he attended the local primary as well as secondary school from 1958 to 1970. After serving briefly in the ranks of the Soviet Army from 1971 to 1973, he studied at the Yerevan Cooperation Institute in 1973 and later at the Yerevan Institute of National Economy in 1974. After graduating as an economist in 1979, he continued working in the system of common nutrition in an agricultural center run by the Martuni regional community of the Communist Party, a position he held since 1975 and kept until 1988.

In 1988, he was appointed Deputy, then Chairman of the Agro-Industrial Committee and participated in the Karabakh movement. Petrosyan became the President of the National Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh, a regional council, on 12 September 1991. He left the position on 8 January 1992 and became the first deputy head of the department of special programs of Armenia. In December 1994, he was chosen as the Prime Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic under the presidency of Robert Kocharyan, the first President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. After serving for three years as Prime Minister until June 1998, Petrosyan took over the Presidency of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic from Kocharyan on 20 March 1997, when the latter was appointed as Prime Minister of Armenia. He continued to serve as president of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic for almost months until 8 September 1997, at the same time keeping his Prime Minister position, when Arkadi Ghukasyan was elected as third president by popular vote.

Death

Leonard Petrosyan’s grave in Tokhmakh Cemetery in Yerevan

Petrosyan then moved to Yerevan, Armenia and was appointed the Deputy Defence Minister of Armenia, and in 1998 became the Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia. He was killed in the 1999 Armenian parliament shooting among other Armenian politicians in the hall of the Armenian National Assembly.

Personal life

He was married and the father of four children named Emil, Seda, Liana, and Never.

Awards

Armenia Order of the Combat Cross, 1st degree (1999)

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