Sarkis Kasyan

Sarkis Kasyan
Սարգիս Կասյան
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Armenian SSR
In office July 1928 – December 1930
Preceded by	Artashes Karinyan
Succeeded by	Armen Ananyan
Personal details
Born	28 January 1876 Shusha, Shusha uezd, Elizavetpol Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	December 11, 1937(1937-12-11) (aged 61) Unknown
Nationality	Armenian
Political party	RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1905–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1937)
Other political affiliations	Communist Party of Armenia
Alma mater	Berlin University
Occupation	Publicist, writer

Sarkis Hovhannesi Kasyan or Kasian (Qosyan, Armenian: Սարգիս Հովհաննեսի Կասյան (Քոսեան), January 28 [O.S. January 16], 1876, Shusha - December 11, 1937) was an Armenian Soviet statesman, politician, publicist and journalist.^[1]

He was arrested and later shot in 1937 during the Great Purge. He was posthumously rehabilitated.