Sarkis Kasyan

Sarkis Hovhannesi Kasyan or Kasian ("Ter-Kasparian", _ru. Касьян Саркис Иванович, January 16, 1876, Shushi - 1937) was a Soviet Armenian statesman, politician and journalist.

Kasyan graduated from Leipzig commercial institute and Berlin University in 1904. PhD on commercial and philosophical sciences. He was a Communist party member from 1905. One of the founders of Armenian bolshevik press in 1905, the leader of Tbilisi communist party organization in 1912-14. In 1919-20 - chairman of Russian Communist (Bolshevik) party Armenian committee. Since the November, 1920 - a member of Armenian Communist Party Central Committee and chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Armenia, signed the declaration of Sovetization of Armenia. On December 2, 1920 V.I. Lenin sent him a telegram welcoming the establishment of Soviet Armenia.

In 1927-31 he was the chairman of Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialistic Republic's Central Executive Committee (government), in 1928-30 - also the chairman of Armenian SSR Central Executive Committee. He was an elected member of all-Soviet Central Executive Committee.

Filmography

*Sarkis Kasyan, 1967, 10 min., dir. R. Frangulyan [http://www.arm-cinema.am/Films/Documentary/docright1_rus.htm]

Links

* [http://www.usanogh.com/content/view/174/92/ Patriarchs, Kings and Rulers of Armenia]
* [http://www.rusarchives.ru/guide/lf_ussr/kar_kva.shtml Kasyan at Russian Archive]
* [http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/bse/article/00033/22200.htm?text=%D1%88%D1%83%D1%88%D0%B0%20 Kasyan in Great Soviet Encyclopedia]