Armen Abaghian
Armen Artavazdi Abaghian (Armenian: Արմեն Աբաղյան; January 1, 1933 in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh – November 18, 2005 in Moscow, Russia) was a Russian-Armenian specialist on nuclear power, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor (1985), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1984, he became the general director of "Energy" scientific and industrial state holding and the director of All-Soviet (then Russian) Institute of Atomic Energy Stations (AES). Then he became the deputy director of Rosenergoatom, a member of IAEA Consultative Committee.
He finished the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1956. His works are dedicated to the mathematical models of AES blocks, their security and anti-crisis information data-centers.
Sources[edit]
- Armenian Concise Encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdian, Yerevan, 1990, Vol. 1, p. 7
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- 1933 births
- 2005 deaths
- People from Stepanakert
- Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- International Atomic Energy Agency officials
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute alumni
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Armenian scientists
- Russian people of Armenian descent
- Soviet Armenians
- Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery