Yuri Bakhshyan


Yuri Bakhshyan was an Armenian politician, the Deputy Speaker of National Assembly of Armenia.

Biography

Bakhshyan was born in 1947, in Goris. He finished the faculty of Physics of the Yerevan State University, then worked as senior scientist. He became Deputy speaker of the Armenian parliament in 1998 until his assassination with other eight politicians in parliament in the Armenian parliament shooting.
He had three children with his wife, Anahit Bakhshyan.