Aram Piruzjan

Aram Sergeyi Piruzyan (; 10 February 1907 – 2 October 1996) was a Soviet and Armenian politician who served as the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Armenian SSR from November 1937 to October 1943.

Biography

Piruzyan was born on 10 February 1907 in Baku, then in Russian Transcaucasia. His father, Sergey, was a revolutionary who worked at a copper smelting plant and was killed during the September Days massacre. In 1929, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). He participated in the 18th Congress of the CPSU in 1938 and served as a member of the Central Auditing Commission of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party from 1939 to 1952. Piruzyan was a member of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union which took place in 1952. Piruzyan later claimed that his book was popular enough that Mikoyan asked for copies to give to Fidel Castro and other Cuban leaders. He also wrote several autobiographical works, including The Life of the Country is My Fate (Жизнь страны – судьба моя, published in 1995) and Food Industry: Years and People (Пищевая индустрия. Годы, люди, published posthumously in 1999). He was married to Evgenia Melik-Alakhverdova-Piruzyan. He died on 2 October 1996 in Yerevan, Armenia, at the age of 89.

Selected works