Then Secretary of the Yerevan City Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia in July 1950 . Deputy minister of security , Armenian SSR , in April 1952 . First deputy premier of Armenia , June 1953 – July 1958 . First secretary of the Armenian Communist party 1960 – 66 . He was dismissed in February 1966 partly as a result of the huge demonstrations in Yerevan in April 1965 , on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide . He was succeeded by Anton Kochinyan in 1966
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Yakov Zarobyan