Aghasi Ghevondi Khanjian was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from May 1930 to July 1936.
Khanjian in 1934
Nestor Lakoba, Nikita Khrushchev, Lavrenti Beria and Aghasi Khanjian at the opening of the Moscow Metro in 1936, the same year Khanjian and Lakoba were killed on Beria's orders. In 1953, Khrushchev had Beria executed.
Aghasi Khanjian's commemorative plaque in Yerevan
Communist Party of Armenia (Soviet Union)
The Communist Party of Armenia was a branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union within the Armenian SSR, and as such, the sole ruling party in the Armenian SSR.
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Image: Aghasi Khanjian 1934
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