- Bella Kocharyan
Bella Kocharyan (Armenian: Բելլա Քոչարյան; born
January 31 ,1954 inStepanakert ,Nagorno-Karabakh ,Azerbaijan SSR ) is the wife of formerArmenia n PresidentRobert Kocharyan and is the formerfirst lady ofArmenia .Kocharyan graduated the Yerevan Medical Institute's Sanitary-Hygienic Medicine Department in 1978. She worked first as a doctor-bacteriologist and then as a doctor-epidemiologist at the sanitary-epidemiological station in Nagorno-Karabakh. She also held the position of the deputy chief physician of the regional sanitary-epidemiological station and during her final years there (1991-1993) she headed a department at the station.
Currently, Kocharyan is the Honorary President of the All-Armenian Bone Marrow Transplant Donors Register and the Honorary President of the Armenian Branch of
Vladimir Spivakov 's international benevolent fund "Talented Children of Armenia."
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