Abraham Guloyan

Abraham Guloyan
Աբրահամ Գուլոյան
Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars of Armenia
In office
February 1, 1935 – January 30, 1937
Preceded bySahak Ter-Gabrielyan
Succeeded bySargis Hаmbardzumyan
Succeeded byStepan Akopyan
Personal details
Born
Abraham Guloyan

1893
Salmas, Qajar Iran
Died1938 (aged 44–45)
NationalityArmenian
Alma materGevorgian Seminary of Etchmiadzin

Abraham Guloyan (Armenian: Աբրահամ Գուլոյան) was an Armenian politician.

Biography

Guloyan was born to an Armenian family in 1893 in Salmas in northwestern Qajar Persia. He studied in Gevorgian Seminary of Etchmiadzin, then continued his studies in the universities of Moscow and Petrograd.

Was the rector of communistic university of Transcaucasia, then the president of State Planning Commission of ASSR, and then in 1935 the president of the Council.

His tenure coincided with the growing repression of the Stalin era and the executions of party functionaries and others. Guloyan was arrested and executed in 1937.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ "Abraham Guloyan". Retrieved May 28, 2016.
  2. ^ Rouben Paul Adalian (2002). Historical Dictionary of Armenia. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.