Badal Muradyan

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Badal Muradyan
Բադալ Մուրադյան
Badal Muradyan's plaque on Moskovyan Street in Yerevan
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
In office
February 5, 1966 – November 21, 1972
Preceded byAnton Kochinyan
Succeeded byGrigory Arzumanyan
Personal details
Born(1915-01-08)8 January 1915
Chibukhchi, Etchmiadzin uezd, Erivan Governorate, Russian Empire
Died30 September 1991(1991-09-30) (aged 76)
Yerevan, Armenia
PartyCPSU
OccupationChemist, politician

Badal Hmayaki Muradyan (Armenian: Բադալ Հմայակի Մուրադյան; 8 January 1915 – 30 September 1991) was a Soviet Armenian politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Armenian SSR from 1966 to 1972.[1][2]

Biography

Muradyan was born on 8 January 1915 in the village of Chibukhchi (Vardanashen) in the Etchmiadzin uezd of the Erivan Governorate of the Russian Empire (today the Armavir Province of Armenia). He attended the Yerevan Polytechnic University and became a chemist. Beginning around 1956, he worked as the first secretary of the Armenian Communist Party for the Lenin District of Yerevan.[1] After serving as the director of the Kirov Chemical Plant, he became the first secretary of Yerevan city committee from 1961 to 1966.[1]

On 5 February 1966, Muradyan became the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Armenia, at the beginning of the Brezhnev era.[3] During his tenure, he was known for his advocacy for the Armenians of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO). In September 1966, Muradyan, together with Armenian First Secretary Anton Kochinyan, unsuccessfully appealed to the Soviet central government in Moscow for the unification of the NKAO with the Armenian SSR.[4] He also worked with Kochinyan and Anastas Mikoyan to organize the festivities marking the centenary of the poet Hovhannes Tumanyan in Yerevan and Dsegh in September 1969.[5]

Muradyan stepped down from his post in November 1972, officially due to the "state of his health."[6] That year, he returned to work at the Kirov Chemical Plant. From 1976 to 1981, he served as the General Director of the Nairit Scientific-Production Association in Yerevan.[3] Muradyan became deputy chairman of the state planning committee of Soviet Armenia in 1981,[1] and eventually became the committee's chief specialist.[3] He died on 30 September 1991.[3] A plaque dedicated to his memory stands on Moskovyan Street in Yerevan. There is also a street named after him in the Armenian capital.[7] He was a recipient of the Order of Lenin.[1]

References

  1. Hambardzumyan, Viktor, ed. (1982). "Մուրադյան, Բադալ Հմայակի". Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia (in Armenian). Vol. 8. Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences. p. 94.
  2. Da Graça, John (2000). Heads of State and Government. New York: Springer. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-349-65771-1.
  3. "Мурадян Бадал Амаякович". knowbysight.info (in Russian). Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  4. Shakarian, Pietro A. (2025). Anastas Mikoyan: An Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 105–106. ISBN 978-0253073556.
  5. Shakarian 2025, p. 81.
  6. The Current Digest of the Soviet Press. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. 1972.
  7. "Badal Muradyan Street on Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 29 December 2021.