Draft:Isahak Melik-Aghamalyan

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Isahak Melik-Aghamalyan
6th Mayor of Yerevan
In office
1898–1904
PrecedingVahan Ter-Sargsyan (1896-1898)
Preceded byHovhannes Melik-Aghamalyan (1904-1910)
Personal details
Born1858
Yerevan
Died1904
Yerevan
CitizenshipArmenia

Isaac Ghahramani Melik-Aghamalyan (Armenian:Իսահակ Ղահրամանի Մելիք-Աղամալյան, Russian:Исаак Каграмани Мелик-Агамалян) (1858, Yerevan, Viceroyalty of the Caucasus, Russian Empire; 1904, Yerevan, Russian Empire) was the sixth mayor of Yerevan.

Biography[edit]

Isahak Melik-Aghamalyan was born in 1858 in the family of Ghahraman Melik-Aghamalyan, a tribal noble prince. He was educated at St. Petersburg University, Faculty of Law. In addition, he has mastered several foreign languages. After returning from St. Petersburg,he started working at the courthouse in Tiflis. For many years, he worked as a notary in the Yerevan State Department. Thanks to his dedicated work, he reached the position of palace adviser and was then a member of the city administration. In 1898, the mayor, Vahan Ter-Sargsyan, died. In November, at the age of forty, Isahak Melik-Aghamalyan was elected mayor, who served for more than six years, until March 1904.

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