1. Hamazasp "Hamo" Ohanjanyan was an Armenian medical doctor, revolutionary, and politician of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.
15 Facts About Hamo Ohanjanyan
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Hamo Ohanjanyan served as the third Prime Minister of the First Republic of Armenia from May 5 to November 23,1920.
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Hamo Ohanjanyan was born in 1873 in the Armenian-majority town of Akhalkalak in the Tiflis Governorate of the Russian Empire.
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Hamo Ohanjanyan first went to school in his birthplace, then moved to Tiflis and graduated from the Tiflis Russian Gymnasium.
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Hamo Ohanjanyan then traveled to Lausanne, where he graduated from the Lausanne Medical Institute in 1899.
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Hamo Ohanjanyan became a member of the eastern Bureau of the ARF in 1905.
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Hamo Ohanjanyan was arrested during the tsarist crackdown on Armenian revolutionaries and sent to Novocherkassk in 1909.
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Hamo Ohanjanyan was the chief defendant in the trial of 159 ARF members in 1912, where the Armenian revolutionaries were defended by Alexander Kerensky.
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Hamo Ohanjanyan then worked as a doctor on the Caucasian front.
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Hamo Ohanjanyan was a member of the Transcaucasian Seim in 1918.
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In September 1920, Kemalist Turkey invaded Armenia, and after a series of crushing defeats, Hamo Ohanjanyan's government resigned on 23 November 1920 to allow another cabinet led by Simon Vratsian to negotiate peace terms.
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Hamo Ohanjanyan was released during the February Uprising of 1921, when Soviet rule was briefly overthrown in Armenia.
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Hamo Ohanjanyan fled to Iran after the restoration of Soviet rule and from there went to Egypt.
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Hamo Ohanjanyan lived the rest of his life in Cairo, working as a doctor and continuing his activities as a member of the ARF Bureau.
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Hamo Ohanjanyan was one of the founders of Hamazkayin, an educational and cultural organization active in the Armenian diaspora to this day.