Stepan Demirchyan (born June 7, 1959) is an Armenia

Armenia

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Politician

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 and son of the Communist-era Armenian leader Karen Demirchyan

Karen Demirchyan

Karen Demirchyan was a Soviet Armenian communist, First Secretary of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1974 to 1988 and later independent politician...

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Biography

Stepan Demirchyan was born in Yerevan

Yerevan

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 and received his degree from Yerevan Polytechnic Institute

State Engineering University of Armenia

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 in 1981. He is an engineer-electrician and a PhD on Technical Sciences. From 1981 to 1986 he worked first as a skilled worker and later senior skilled worker, supervisor-probationer, head of station and then deputy head of the assembly shop in the Electrical Engines Industrial Complex under the Ministry of Electrical Technologies Industry. From 1984 to 1986 he worked as an assistant engineer in the Electrical Engines Industrial Complex. From 1986 to 1988 he worked first as a chief engineer and later as acting director in the Construction Plant of Programming Equipment under the USSR

Soviet Union

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 Ministry of Equipment, Automation Means and Management Systems. The next fifteen years were spent as the general director of the Mars Industrial Complex.

He was a candidate in Armenia's 2003 presidential election

Armenian presidential election, 2003

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On May 25, 2003 he was elected to the National Assembly

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 from the proportional list of the Justice Alliance

Justice (Armenia)

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 and is the leader of the Justice Fraction and the People's Party of Armenia

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Demirchyan is married and has three children.

Source

• http://www.parliament.am/deputies.php?sel=details&ID=55&lang=eng