Serzh Sargsyan

@President of Armenia, Birthday and Family

Serzh Sargsyan is the third President of Armenia, who has also served as the Prime Minister of the country

Jun 30, 1954

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: June 30, 1954
  • Nationality: Armenian
  • Famous: President of Armenia, Republicans, Leaders, Presidents
  • Ideologies: Republicans
  • Spouses: Rita Sargsyan
  • Known as: Serzh Azati Sargsya
  • Childrens: Anush Sargsyan, Satenik Sargsyan

Serzh Sargsyan born at

Stepanakert

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Birth Place

The President of Armenia got married to a music teacher, Rita Aleksandri Dadayan, in 1983. The couple have two daughters, Satenik and Anush, and have also been blessed with a granddaughter Mariam.

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Personal Life

Serzh Sargsyan was born in the capital city of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Stepanakert, on June 30, 1954.

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Childhood & Early Life

At the age of seventeen, in 1971, he started attending the 'Yerevan State University' in Armenia. He took a break to work for the 'Soviet Armed Forces', for a year, and eventually graduated in Philology, eight years later.

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Childhood & Early Life

After completing his education, in 1979, Serzh was appointed by the 'Stepanakert City Communist Party Youth Association Committee', as its head. For the next eleven years he served in various positions like the first and second Secretary of the association, and later Division Head of the 'Stepanakert City Committee Propaganda'.

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Career

He was also the Unit Instructor of 'Nagorno-Karabakh Regional Committee Communist Organizations', and eventually the First Secretary of the ‘Nagorno-Karabakh Regional Committee’, Genrikh Poghosyan's deputy.

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In 1990, Sargsyan was made the Chairman of the 'Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Self-Defence Forces Committee'. Later he became a member of the country's 'Supreme Council', during which he contributed greatly to the ethnic war in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

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The political leader was appointed as the Minister of Defence three years later, in 1993.

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In 1995, he was made the Head of the State Security Department, of Armenia, and was promoted to the post of Minister of National Security, a year later.

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One of the major contributions that Serzh has made as a President is the peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Even though the two countries have not arrived at a concrete resolution yet, their regular talks have helped reduced violence in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, to a considerable extent.

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Major Works