Career Timeline and Events During His Presidency
- 1972–1974 – served in the Soviet Army
- 1975–1976 – labor activities in different enterprises in Stepanakert and Moscow
- 1977–1982 – electrical engineering faculty of Yerevan State Polytechnic Institute. Diploma with excellence.
- 1980–1981 – worked as a mechanical engineer at the electrical engineering plant in Stepanakert
- 1981–1985 – worked at different positions at Municipal committee in Stepanakert town committee of the Komsomol Union, including the post of assistant secretary
- 1986 – instructor of town committee of Stepanakert Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1987–1989 – head of Karabakh Soviet party organization of the silk factory
- 19 February 1988 – leader of the Artsakh movement, which fought for secession from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic and for later union with Armenia; member of group Krunk; led the Miatsum organization
- 1989–1995 – twice elected as a deputy of Supreme Council of Republic of Armenia, and member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
- 1991–1992 deputy of the Supreme Union of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic in its first convocation
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