Soviet and Armenian politicianDemirchyan Karen has always enjoyed the respect and love of his people. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he withdrew from political activities and decided to return to power only by popular demand of the population of Armenia and took up the post of speaker of parliament, which turned out to be a tragedy for him. In 1999, during one of the sessions of the RA National Assembly, a group of terrorists seized the parliament building and opened fire around the hall, in particular, on the presidium. One of the bullets inflicted a mortal wound on the former first secretary of the ASSR. Thus, Demirchyan Karen Serobovich died at the age of 67 from the bullet of terrorists.
The great Armenian politician DemirchyanKaren Serobovich was born in April 1932 in Yerevan, the capital of the Armenian SSR. His parents were from Western Armenia. Both orphans, who were able to escape the Turkish slaughter. They met in the children's shelter of Alexandropol (now Gyumri). Both were from intelligent families, from whom they transferred beautiful genes. They were born sons Kamo and Demirchyan Karen (his birthday - April 17). From childhood, the future first secretary was distinguished by diligence and curiosity. In addition, he stood out among his peers with his external data. He studied "excellent" and graduated from the school with a medal. 26 commissars. Then the guy continued his studies at the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute. K. Marx. And he was able to overcome this height with a distinction - a red diploma. Karen received a specialty as a mechanical engineer.
After the institute he was sent to work in theLeningrad. Here he very soon became the head of the design team in one of the institutions involved in the defense industry of the Soviet Union. Then he was waiting for the transfer to the capital of the country. However, Demirchyan Karen refused this and asked to be transferred to his native city. In Yerevan, he received first the position of a master in an electrical engineering plant, and then - an engineer-technologist. Thanks to his knowledge and diligence, the young man made a successful career and soon became the head of the foundry. Here he worked for 10 years. Everyone loved Karen, from workers to superiors. He always respected even the laborers. There was not a single person in a huge collective who did not remember about him with special warmth, and sometimes with gratitude.
Along with the work at the plant, Demirchyan Karen studiedin the Higher Party School. This was a prerequisite for a future career. Due to the received diploma he managed to become the director of the native plant. Over the years of his work, this company has managed to reach new heights. And for Demirchyan it became a kind of "runway" to new heights.
In 1962, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Armenian SSRYakov Zurabyan appealed to the Center with a request to allow the construction of a memorial in memory of the victims of the genocide of 1915, or rather, the Armenians who died during the First World War. It was then that Karen Demirchyan, whose family had a direct relationship to those tragic events, expressed his readiness to assist in the construction of the memorial. In 1971 he received promotion and became the 2nd secretary of the city committee of the CP of Yerevan, and in 3 years - already the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Armenian SSR, that is, the country's first person.
He was a staunch supporter of transformation anddid everything possible to raise his country to a qualitatively new level of development. Those who came to Armenia in those years immediately noticed these changes. The time of his leadership was a period of prosperity for Armenia. He was the first head of the Armenian SSR, who publicly announced his position regarding the events of 1915, that is, the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey. Also Karen Serobovich was the first who on April 24, 1977 rose to the monument to the victims and laid a wreath. Next, he conceived a grandiose construction on the same hill as the memorial. Soon the center gave permission for the creation of the sports and concert complex Tsitsernakaberd.
To this construction he treated as withown child. He was interested in everything that was associated with him. When the building was completely rebuilt, Demirchyan Karen Serobovich (photo posted in the article) rejoiced as a child or as the proud father of a newborn before the door of the hospital. However, a few days later a fire broke out over the building. Many considered this to be almost a terrorist act.
The first secretary of the KP stood and watched as the firementhey struggle with fire, and tears of resentment come to my eyes. Then a hunched woman approached him and, holding out several bills, said that she was ready to sacrifice her pension for the sake of restoring Tsitsernakaberd. Even more touched, Demirchyan Karen bent over to the old woman, thanked her for her kindness and said that the state will have enough money for restoration, and he promises to do it in the shortest possible time, right on the Victory Day. And I kept my promise. At the concert, dedicated to May 9, next to him in the box sat that same grandmother.
In the late 80's, when the USSR was a wavenationalist movements, statesman Demirchyan Karen (photo you see in the article), already known in the center as a nationalist, was forced to leave the political arena. During the years of the Karabakh war, he directed the Arm-electron plant and, as always, enjoyed universal respect. In 1996, during the presidential elections in Armenia, the republic was divided into two camps - supporters of the first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, running for a second term, and Vazgen Manukyan, the former prime minister of the country. Both sides did not want to make concessions, and although, according to official figures, the election was won by the incumbent president, the people did not want to recognize this.
And then the people suddenly began to say thatif Karen Demirchyan returned to the political arena, then the split of the nation could have been avoided. The murmur of the people with a request to return to power reached him. And then Karen Serobovich decides to found a new People's Party of the Republic of Armenia. Every day its members were replenished with new members, who linked their future with Karen Demirchyan. At the parliamentary elections, the party created by him unites with the republican party and in the tandem with it wins. At the first meeting K. Demirchyan is elected speaker of the parliament. For a short period of government, he was able to do a lot for the country and would do even more if not for the tragic events.
