Abraham Guloyan
Abraham Guloyan | |
|---|---|
Աբրահամ Գուլոյան | |
| Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars of Armenia | |
| In office February 1, 1935 – January 30, 1937 | |
| Preceded by | Sahak Ter-Gabrielyan |
| Succeeded by | Sargis Hambardzumyan |
| Succeeded by | Stepan Akopyan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Abraham Guloyan 1893 |
| Died | April 19, 1938[1] |
| Party | CPSU |
| Alma mater | Gevorgian Seminary |
| Occupation | politician |
Abraham Guloyan (Armenian: Աբրահամ Գուլոյան) was a Soviet Armenian politician.
Biography
Guloyan was born to an Armenian family in 1893 in Salmas in northwestern Iran. He studied at the Gevorgian Seminary at Etchmiadzin, then continued his studies at universities in Moscow and Petrograd. He was the rector of the Communist University of Transcaucasia, then the president of the State Planning Commission of Soviet Armenia, and then in 1935, Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars of the Armenian SSR.[2]
Guloyan's tenure in office coincided with the growing repression of party functionaries during the Great Purge in Soviet Armenia.[2] Guloyan himself was arrested on September 14, 1937, by Georgy Malenkov in Yerevan, on the personal orders of Joseph Stalin.[3] In his speech before the Armenian Party plenum on September 15, Malenkov "boasted of arresting Guloyan and extracting a quick confession from him after one hour."[3] Guloyan was executed on April 19, 1938.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Сталинские списки: Армянская ССР". stalin.memo.ru. Archived from the original on September 16, 2020. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
- ^ a b "Abraham Guloyan". Government of Armenia. Retrieved May 28, 2016.
- ^ a b Shakarian, Pietro A. (2025). Anastas Mikoyan: An Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 17–19. ISBN 978-0253073556.