Seyran Ohanyan

Personal detailsBorn1 July 1962

Shushi, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, USSR (now Shusha, Azerbaijan)

Party Independent

Other political
affiliations

Armenia Alliance

Awards

see belowMilitary serviceAllegiance

USSR
Artsakh

ArmeniaBranch/service

Soviet Army

Artsakh Defense Army

Armenian Ground Forces

Years of service

1983–2008RankColonel GeneralCommandsSoviet 366th Motorized Rifle Regiment
Armenian 5th Army CorpsBattles/wars

Seyran Musheghi Ohanyan (Armenian: Սեյրան Մուշեղի Օհանյան; born 1 July 1962) is an Armenian military officer and politician currently serving as a deputy in the National Assembly of Armenia. He served as Defence Minister of Armenia from 14 April 2008 until 3 October 2016, the longest official to serve in that position. A native of Nagorno-Karabakh, he participated in both the first and second Karabakh wars, and from 2000 to 2007 served as defence minister of the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh.