Stepan Demirchian
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Stepan Kareni Demirchyan ( hy, Ստեփան Կարենի Դեմիրճյան; born June 7, 1959) is an
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and son of the
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-era Armenian leader
Karen Demirchyan Karen Serobi Demirchyan ( hy, Կարեն Սերոբի Դեմիրճյան; 17 April 1932 – 27 October 1999) was a Soviet and Armenian politician. He served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1974 to 1988. Soon after ...
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Biography

Stepan Demirchyan was born in
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and received his degree from
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in 1981. He is an engineer-electrician and a PhD on Technical Sciences. From 1981 to 1986 he worked first as a skilled worker and later senior skilled worker, supervisor-probationer, head of station and then deputy head of the assembly shop in the Electrical Engines Industrial Complex under the Ministry of Electrical Technologies Industry. From 1984 to 1986 he worked as an assistant engineer in the Electrical Engines Industrial Complex. From 1986 to 1988 he worked first as a chief engineer and later as acting director in the Construction Plant of Programming Equipment under the
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Ministry of Equipment, Automation Means and Management Systems. The next fifteen years were spent as the general director of the Mars Industrial Complex. He was a candidate in Armenia's 2003 presidential election. On May 25, 2003 he was elected to the
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from the proportional list of the Justice Alliance and is the leader of the Justice Fraction and the People's Party of Armenia.


Personal life

Demirchyan is married and has three children.


Sources

*http://www.parliament.am/deputies.php?sel=details&ID=55&lang=eng {{DEFAULTSORT:Demirchyan, Stepan 1959 births Living people Candidates for President of Armenia Members of the National Assembly (Armenia) National Polytechnic University of Armenia alumni People's Party of Armenia politicians