Artavazd Gevorgyan

Prosecutor of Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic

1959 – 1961

Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia

1990-1997

He was born in 1926 in Kirovakan (now Vanadzor). He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Yerevan State University. He was actively engaged in scientific and pedagogical activities. He obtained his LL. D. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Law at YSU, head of the chair and in 1959 he was appointed as the Prosecutor of ASSR. Later he was holding the posts of the Head of the Supreme Court of ASSR (1957-70, 1985-90) and the Minister of Justice. He worked as the Prosecutor General  of the Republic of Armenia during 1990-1997. He is a State Councillor of Justice. He engaged in educational activities. He died in 2017.