Ashot Navasardyan
Ashot Tsolaki Navasardyan (Armenian: Աշոտ Ցոլակի Նավասարդյան; March 28, 1950 – November 3, 1997) was an Armenian politician and military commander who founded the Republican Party of Armenia.[1]
Navasardyan was born in Yerevan and graduated from the Faculty of Law of Yerevan State University. From 1968 to 1990, he was a member of the underground National Unity Party and its successor, the Union for National Self-Determination, which sought to achieve Armenia's secession from the Soviet Union. He was imprisoned several times by the Soviet authorities for his dissident activities, serving a total of 12 years in prisons.
Navasardyan was an advocate of the ideas of the Armenian military leader and nationalist thinker
Navasardyan died from a heart attack on November 3, 1997. He is buried at Yerablur military cemetery.
References
- Ashot NAVASSARDIAN at the National Assembly of Armenia Website