Serzh Sargsyan

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.

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

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.