Speech Of Yakov Zarubyan

Yakov Zarubyan was born in Artvin (Turkey). During World War I he moved to Russia with his family, worked as a laborer in Kharkov. In 1923 he joined the Communist Party and began working for the newspaper "Kharkov proletarian". In October 1940 Zarubyan was elected secretary of the district committee for personnel in the largest industrial Stalin region in Kharkov. From 1949 to 1950 - Head of Department of Administrative Bodies of the Central Committee, from 1950 to 1952 - Second Secretary of the Yerevan City Party Committee, from 1952 to 1953 - Deputy Minister of State Security of the Armenian SSR for personnel, in 1953 to 1960 Zarubyan was in various leadership positions, and from 1960 to 1966 - First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia. In 1960 he moved to Moscow and was appointed to the post of Deputy Minister of the Electrical Industry of the USSR until 1980. Yakov Zarubyan was awarded with a number of medals and orders. Died in Moscow.