page_title: Ministers of Social Protection of the Armenian SSR
section_title: Khoren Gregory Hovsepyan (1892-1937)
hierarchical_section_title: Ministers of Social Protection of the Armenian SSR / Ministers / Khoren Gregory Hovsepyan (1892-1937)
caption_attribution_description: Ænglisc: Khoren Gregory Hovsepyan (1892-1937)
context_page_description: The Minister of Social Protection of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic was a government and state position in the Ministry of Social Protection of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic or Armenian SSR, the position was formed 1920, when Armenia became part of the Soviet Union. It became important state institution for citizens in the Soviet region.
context_section_description: Khoren Hovsepyan was born in Kirovabad, in 1892. He worked as a pharmacist for eight years. Hovsepyan has been a member of the Communist Party since 1917.
  In 1904-1911, he studied at secondary school in Kirovabad. 
  In 1917, he passed his pharmaceutical exam at the Medical Faculty of Saratov University and got his degree as a pharmacist’s assistant. 
  In the period of 1916-1917, Hovsepyan was the director of a pharmacy, a pharmacist on the Caucasian Front, in the Cities Union of Khoy, Bayazet, Van in Turkey and Persia. 
  From June to December, 1920 Khoren Hovsepyan presided the Bureau of Trade Unions in Kirovabad. Then, till June 1922 he occupied the position of Deputy Chairman of the Council of Trade Unions.
  Hovsepyan was in charge of food in the army on Ghamaghlu Front (February–June 1921, decision made by the Armenian Revolutionary Committee).
  Khoren Hovsepyan held the following positions: 
  Deputy People’s Commissar of Labor (1922-1923), ArmSSR People’s Commissar of Labor and Social Security (1923-1928), Deputy Chairman of State Planning (1928-1931), Chairman of State Planning (1931), President of the Regional Executive Committee in Kapan (1931-1933), Head of Alaverdi Copper Factory (1933-1935), People’s Commissar of Local Industry (1935). 
  In 1937, he was removed from the position of People’s Commissar as well as from the Party. 
  Khoren Hovsepyan was fusilladed for his counter-revolutionary activities in 1937.
caption: Khoren Gregory Hovsepyan (1892-1937)
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