Bella Kocharyan | |
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Bella Kocharyan in 2005  | |
| First Lady of Armenia | |
| In role 9 April 1998 – 9 April 2008 | |
| President | Robert Kocharyan |
| Preceded by | Lyudmila Ter-Petrosyan |
| Succeeded by | Rita Sargsyan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 31 January 1954 Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Azerbaijani SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Armenian |
| Spouse(s) | Robert Kocharyan |
| Children | Sedrak, Gayane, Levon |
Bella Kocharyan (Armenian: Բելլա Քոչարյան; born January 31, 1954 in Stepanakert) is the wife of former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and is the former First Lady of Armenia.[1]
Kocharyan graduated the Yerevan Medical Institute's Sanitary-Hygienic Medicine Department in 1978. She worked first as a doctor-bacteriologist and then as a doctor-epidemiologist at the sanitary-epidemiological station in Nagorno-Karabakh. She also held the position of the deputy chief physician of the regional sanitary-epidemiological station and during her final years there (1991-1993) she headed a department at the station.
Currently, Mrs. Kocharyan is the Honorary President of the All-Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry and the Honorary President of the Armenian Branch of Vladimir Spivakov's international benevolent fund "Talented Children of Armenia."
References
- ^ "First Lady Bella Kocharyan and Mikhail Shvidkoy attend the "Armenia Sacra" exhibition". Public Radio of Armenia. 10 March 2007. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2011.