Hranush Kharatyan | |
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Հրանուշ Խառատյան | |
![]() Kharatyan in 2008 | |
Deputy Mayor of Yerevan | |
In office 1992–1993 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 18 February 1952 Dağ Cəyir, Shamkir District, Azerbaijan Soviet Socalist Republic |
Children | 2 |
Education | Yerevan State University |
Profession | Ethnographer |
Hranush Kharatyan ( Armenian: Հրանուշ Խառատյան; born 18 February 1952) [1] is an Armenian ethnographer. [2] She also specialises in Caucasus studies, minority groups and Armenian studies. [1] She has been a member of the Pre-Parliament civil initiative since November 2012. [3]
Born in the village of Dağ Cəyir, in Azerbaijan's Shamkir District, Kharatyan graduated from the Yerevan State University (YSU) with a history degree in 1975. [4] She earned the degree of a Candidate of Sciences from the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography in Moscow by 1979. [1]
From 1979–1989, Kharatyan worked as a researcher at the Oriental studies Institute of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. [1] In 1989–1992 she was a research fellow at the Department of Ethnography at the YSU. [1] She headed the same department between 1994 and 2000. [1] In 1992–1993 she was the Deputy Mayor of Yerevan, Armenia's capital. [1] She was appointed head of the Department of National Minorities and Religious Affairs in the Armenian Government [5] in 2004, which she resigned in 2008. [1]
Kharatyan is fluent in Armenian, Russian and has some knowledge of Azerbaijani. [1] She is married with 2 children. [4]
Hranush Kharatyan | |
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Հրանուշ Խառատյան | |
![]() Kharatyan in 2008 | |
Deputy Mayor of Yerevan | |
In office 1992–1993 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 18 February 1952 Dağ Cəyir, Shamkir District, Azerbaijan Soviet Socalist Republic |
Children | 2 |
Education | Yerevan State University |
Profession | Ethnographer |
Hranush Kharatyan ( Armenian: Հրանուշ Խառատյան; born 18 February 1952) [1] is an Armenian ethnographer. [2] She also specialises in Caucasus studies, minority groups and Armenian studies. [1] She has been a member of the Pre-Parliament civil initiative since November 2012. [3]
Born in the village of Dağ Cəyir, in Azerbaijan's Shamkir District, Kharatyan graduated from the Yerevan State University (YSU) with a history degree in 1975. [4] She earned the degree of a Candidate of Sciences from the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography in Moscow by 1979. [1]
From 1979–1989, Kharatyan worked as a researcher at the Oriental studies Institute of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. [1] In 1989–1992 she was a research fellow at the Department of Ethnography at the YSU. [1] She headed the same department between 1994 and 2000. [1] In 1992–1993 she was the Deputy Mayor of Yerevan, Armenia's capital. [1] She was appointed head of the Department of National Minorities and Religious Affairs in the Armenian Government [5] in 2004, which she resigned in 2008. [1]
Kharatyan is fluent in Armenian, Russian and has some knowledge of Azerbaijani. [1] She is married with 2 children. [4]