Grigory Arutinov

Grigory Arutinov
Arutinov in 1938
First Secretary of the
Communist Party of the Armenian SSR
In office
September 24, 1937  November 28, 1953
Preceded byAmatuni Vardapetyan
Succeeded bySuren Tovmasyan
Personal details
Born
Grigory Artemievich Arutinov

November 7, 1900
Telavi, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedNovember 9, 1957(1957-11-09) (aged 57)
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union

Grigory Artemievich Arutinov or Grigor Artemi Harutyunyan (Armenian: Գրիգոր Արտեմի Հարությունյան (Հարությունով), Russian: Григорий Артемьевич Арутинов; November 7, 1900 – November 9, 1957) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Armenian SSR from 24 September 1937 to 12 March 1953. His tenure as first secretary was the longest in the history of the Armenian SSR.