From Big Construction Projects to the Struggle for Karabakh: How Anton Kochinyan Changed the Republic Anton Arbandovich Kochinyan was born on October 25, 1913 in the village of Shagali, Burchelinsky / Karkilysky District, Ivan Oblast, into a peasant family. He received his elementary education in a rural school, and then studied at the Tiflis Pedagogical College. In 1935 he graduated from the Communist Higher Agricultural School, and then the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CPSU (1959). Since the late 1930s, he actively worked in the Komsomol and party structures: he was the editor of regional newspapers, the secretary of the Azizbekov District Committee of the Komsomol of Armenia, then the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of the Armenian SSR. During the war he asked to go to the front, but was refused and continued to work in the party bodies. From the fall of 1946 he served as the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Armenia, and in 1949-1952 he supervised personnel policy. Since November 1952, Kochinyan headed the Council of Ministers of the Armenian SSR, remaining in this position for more than 13 years. At the same time, from 1954 to 1958, he served as the foreign minister of the republic. In February 1966 he was elected first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia and held this position until November 1974. During his leadership, important projects were carried out: the construction of the Metsmore nuclear power plant, the Harzdan Stadium and the Arpa-Saban tunnel, which were designed to save the level of Lake Saban. The construction of the Tsisnarkabard memorial complex has been completed. Kochinyan repeatedly raised the issue of returning Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhchivan to the Armenian SSR. He was a delegate to CPSU congresses, a member of the Party Central Committee and a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. For his activities he was awarded three Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Patriotic War, a master's degree and the Order of the Medal of Honor.

From Big Construction Projects to the Struggle for Karabakh: How Anton Kochinyan Changed the Republic Anton Arbandovich Kochinyan was born on October 25, 1913 in the village of Shagali, Burchelinsky / Karkilysky District, Ivan Oblast, into a peasant family. He received his elementary education in a rural school, and then studied at the Tiflis Pedagogical College. In 1935 he graduated from the Communist Higher Agricultural School, and then the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CPSU (1959). Since the late 1930s, he actively worked in the Komsomol and party structures: he was the editor of regional newspapers, the secretary of the Azizbekov District Committee of the Komsomol of Armenia, then the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of the Armenian SSR. During the war he asked to go to the front, but was refused and continued to work in the party bodies. From the fall of 1946 he served as the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Armenia, and in 1949-1952 he supervised personnel policy. Since November 1952, Kochinyan headed the Council of Ministers of the Armenian SSR, remaining in this position for more than 13 years. At the same time, from 1954 to 1958, he served as the foreign minister of the republic. In February 1966 he was elected first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia and held this position until November 1974. During his leadership, important projects were carried out: the construction of the Metsmore nuclear power plant, the Harzdan Stadium and the Arpa-Saban tunnel, which were designed to save the level of Lake Saban. The construction of the Tsisnarkabard memorial complex has been completed. Kochinyan repeatedly raised the issue of returning Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhchivan to the Armenian SSR. He was a delegate to CPSU congresses, a member of the Party Central Committee and a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. For his activities he was awarded three Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Patriotic War, a master's degree and the Order of the Medal of Honor.

Anton Kochinian left his post in 1974, and then retired. He died on December 1, 1990 in Yerevan, and was buried in the Tokmach cemetery.