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Hayk Ovsepyan
Hayk Alexandri Hovsepyan or Gayk Alexandrovich Osepyan (Ovsepyan) ( hy, Հայկ Ալեքսանդրի Հովսեփյան; ; 19 January or 19 June 1891 - 10 September 1937) was a Soviet military leader and politician of Armenian origin. He was also a deputy chief of the General Political Department of the Red Army. He was executed in 1937 during the Great Purge. Biography Hayk Hovsepyan was born in 1891 to an Armenian family in the village of Bashkadyklar (Başgedikler) in the Kars Oblast of the Russian Empire. He was active in a number of political parties, including the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, which he joined in 1913. He graduated from the Moscow Lazarev seminary in 1911, as well as the Medical Faculty of Moscow University. During the First World War, he served on the Caucasian front. In 1917 he went to Tiflis and participated in the founding of the Communist Party of Armenia, also serving as the editor of its newspaper ''Karmir Orer'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secretary (title)
Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, power, or importance in the organization. Secretaries announce important events and communicate to the organization. The term is derived from the Latin word , "to distinguish" or "to set apart", the passive participle () meaning "having been set apart", with the eventual connotation of something private or confidential, as with the English word ''secret.'' A was a person, therefore, overseeing business confidentially, usually for a powerful individual (a king, pope, etc.). The official title of the leader of most communist and socialist political parties is the "General Secretary of the Central Committee" or "First Secretary of the Central Committee". When a communist party is in power, the general secretary is usually the country's ''de facto'' leader (though sometimes this leader also holds state-level positions to monopolize power, such as a presidency or premiershi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |