Anton Kochinyan | |
Birth Name: | Anton Yervandovich Kochinyan |
Office1: | First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia |
Term Start1: | 5 February 1966 |
Term End1: | 27 November 1974 |
Predecessor1: | Yakov Zarobyan |
Successor1: | Karen Demirchyan |
Office2: | Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic |
Term Start2: | 1952 |
Term End2: | 1966 |
Predecessor2: | Sahak Karapetyan |
Successor2: | Badal Muradyan |
Office3: | Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Armenian SSR |
Term Start3: | 1958 |
Term End3: | 1954 |
Predecessor3: | Gevorg Hovhannisian |
Successor3: | Balabek Martirosian |
Birth Date: | October 25, 1913 |
Birth Place: | Vahagni, Lori Province, Russian Empire |
Death Place: | Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union |
Nationality: | Soviet Armenian |
Occupation: | politician |
Native Name Lang: | hy |
Anton Yervandi Kochinyan (Armenian: Անտոն Երվանդի Քոչինյան; 25 October 1913 - 1 December 1990) was a Soviet Armenian politician. He was Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1952 to 1966, and the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1966 until his retirement in 1974.
He pleaded unsuccessfully with central government in Moscow for the unification of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia. He was succeeded by Karen Demirchyan in 1974.