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Leadership Volatility: Soviet Karabakh’s Many Leaders<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n By<\/span>Emil Sanamyan<\/strong>\n \n March 9, 2018<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Since the establishment of the Autonomous Oblast of Nagorno Karabakh (AONK) in 1923 through its renaming as the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) in 1936 and until the abolition of local self-government in 1989, AONK \/ NKAO had twenty changes of its Communist leaders.<\/p>\n

There was a particularly volatile period under Stalin with sixteen of these twenty leadership appointments made before 1953, a leadership change on average every two years. Initially, there was a similar period of volatility in Soviet Azerbaijan \u2013 11 leadership changes from 1920 to 1933 \u2013 and Soviet Armenia with eight leadership changes between 1920 and 1937. But leadership instability continued in Karabakh for two decades longer and included eight changes of top officials during the tenure of Soviet Azerbaijani leader Mir Jafar Bagirov (1933-53).<\/p>\n

This was followed by a relative period of stability from 1950s to 1980s. Gurgen Melkumyan\u2019s tenure lasted eleven years from 1962 to 1973, and\u00a0his successor Boris Kevorkov became the longest-working Karabakh leader, holding the office from 1973 to 1988.<\/p>\n

The incumbent president Bako Sahakyan, holding office since 2007 and with current term continuing until 2020, is thus on track to surpass Melkumyan\u2019s longevity this year, making the length of Sahakyan\u2019s tenure second only to Kevorkov.<\/p>\n

List of AONK \/ NKAO Communist leaders sourced from the\u00a0Directory<\/a>\u00a0of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
7 \u2013 11.1923<\/td>\nSero Manutsyan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17.12.1923 \u2013 3.1924<\/td>\nHakob Kamari (Bejanyan)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4 \u2013 8.1924<\/td>\nNikolay Sarkisov<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10.1924 \u2013 8.1929<\/td>\nArtavazd Sahakyants<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8.1929\u00a0\u2013 6.1930<\/td>\nAshot Karamyan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6.1930 \u2013 8.1931<\/td>\nKhoren Varunts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9.1931 \u2013 8.1933<\/td>\nKarapet Grigoryan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8.1933 \u2013 3.1934<\/td>\nBagrat Batikyan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4.1934 \u2013 9.1937<\/td>\nPyotr Pogosov<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9.1937 \u2013\u00a01940<\/td>\nMikhail Manukyants<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1940 \u2013\u00a01.1942<\/td>\nAleksandr Avanesov<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13.3.1942\u00a0\u2013 1946<\/td>\nYeghishe Grigoryan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1946 \u2013\u00a01948<\/td>\nMikhail Manukyants<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1948\u00a0\u2013 1.1949<\/td>\nTigran Grigoryan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1.1949 \u2013 1952<\/td>\nSedrak Abramov<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1952 \u2013 12.1958<\/td>\nYeghishe Grigoryan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12.1958 \u2013 10.1962<\/td>\nNikolay Shakhnazarov<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10.1962 \u2013 10.1973<\/td>\nGurgen Melkumyan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10.1973 \u2013 24.2.1988<\/td>\nBoris Kevorkov<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24.2.1988 \u2013 20.1.1989<\/td>\nHenrikh Poghosyan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":1062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLeadership Volatility: Soviet Karabakh's Many Leaders<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/2018\/03\/09\/leadership-volatility-soviet-karabakhs-many-leaders\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Leadership Volatility: Soviet Karabakh's Many Leaders - 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