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   Next    is     Khanjian,   a   Sovkhoz founded in 1957, named in honor of Aghasi Khanjian, First Secretary of the Armenian Communist Party from 1930 until 1936.  Born in Van in 1901, later a theological student in Ejmiatsin, Khanjian became as early as 1917 a leading       member     of         Yerevan's

   On  the  main  road  W  from  Armavir, first town is Hatsik  (founded in 1933, called Nairi from 1963 till 1991).

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Communist youth movement. After Sovietization, Khanjian was sent to Moscow for higher socialist education, then shipped back to Armenia in 1928 to put the local Party back on track.  In July 1936, after fierce criticism by the TransCaucasus Party plenum for his nationalist deviation and toleration of Trotskyites, Khanjian experienced a fatal gunshot wound in the Tbilisi office of Lavrenti Beria, a man who tolerated no rivals in the Caucasus.  Patriotic even in death, Khanjian transported himself to his hotel room, where his official suicide was attributed to despondency at his political failings and poor health.  Khanjian and many of his fellows were posthumously rehabilitated and credited with much of Armenia’s Soviet-era economic progress.