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Aghasi Khanchian (1901-1936) was the leader of Soviet Armenia from May 1930 to July 1936 within the Transcaucasian SFSR. Khanchian was born in the city of Van, Ottoman Empire (today eastern Turkey). With the onslaught of the Armenian Genocide, his family emigrated from the city in 1915 and settled in Russian Armenia. Khanchian proved to be a charismatic Soviet politician and was very popular among the Armenian populace. However, he and an entire generation of intellectual Armenian communist leaders (such as Vagarshak Arutyunovich Ter-Vaganyan) fell victim to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.[1]
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- ^ Zev Katz, Rosemarie Rogers, Frederic Harned. Handbook of Major Soviet Nationalities, p. 146-7. ISBN 0-02-917090-7
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