June 28, 2026

Zairmair Ashrafyan

Prosecutor of Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic

1927 – 1929

He was born in the village of Hajighara (now Lernapat). He studied at the University of Tiflis. He worked as the Head of the Supreme Court of ASSR, the Head of Populist Commissariat of Justice, the Prosecutor. He was actively engaged in scientific research. He was persecuted in 1936 and was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment. He died in 1939 while being in exile.