Albert Ovsepyan (Armenian: Ալբերտ Հովսեփյան; 13 January 1938) is an Armenian-Abkhazian politician, a member of the People's Assembly of Abkhazia and a former Vice-Speaker of the Assembly.
Biography
Ovsepyan was born in Parnaut, a settlement in the Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. He graduated from Sukhumi Pedagogical Institute, spending most of his career as an educator. Ovsepyan was elected to the People's Assembly of Abkhazia at its thirteenth convocation. He became Vice-Speaker of the People's Assembly of Abkhazia in March 2006, replacing its previous vice-speaker, Alexander Stranichkin, who had nominated Ovsepyan.
On 3 May 2010, Ovsepyan retired from the post of Vice-Speaker on account of old age.
Notes
- The Abkhazian language employs a modified form of Cyrillic rather than Latin letters, and Ovsepyan's surname, written in Armenian script as Հովսեփյան, may also be transliterated as Ovsepian, Hovsepian, or Hovsepyan.
References
- ^ "Альберт Овсепян избран вице-спикером Парламента самопровозглашенной республики Абхазия". Novyi Region. 28 March 2006. Retrieved 28 June 2009. (in Russian)
- "Грузия нуждается во внешней поддержке: Абхазия за неделю". Regnum Information Agency. 5 April 2006. Retrieved 28 June 2009. (in Russian)
- Выпуск №245-246. Apsnypress (in Russian). 3 May 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2010.