Seyran Shahsuvaryan

Seyran Shahsuvaryan

Seyran Nickolai Shahsuvaryan is the Press-Secretary of the Defence Minister, Army Colonel of the RA, of Armenia. He was born on August 13, 1953 in Yerevan. He graduated in 1974 from KH.Aboyan State Pedagogic Institute, producer department of the culture faculty. He was trained in Moscow, in the Taganka theatre, in Lyoubimov's studio that same year. He became the director of the Culture House, of the Nairi Region from 1974 to 1978. He served in the Armed Forces of the USSR from 1975 to 1076. From 1970 to 1993, he worked in the TV films (Yerevan), studio of the State of TV and Radio. In 1978, he finished the Higher Producer Courses of the State Committee of TV and Radio. In 1983, he had training in film studio (Mosfilm), Rollan Bikov's studio. In 1985, he was given the big prize for the film (Aram Khachaturyan). In 1993, he became the head of the culture department, then the head of information and press department of the Defence Minister of RA. In 1997, he was sent on the mission on the national TV, as the deputy of the NTV studio (Nork). In 1998, he was appointed the head of the TV studio (Nork). In 1999, he became the deputy of the head of information and censor department under the Government of the RA and in 2000 the head of the TV studio (Prometei). In 2001, he was appointed the Press Secretary of the Defence Minister of the RA. He is a member of the RA Union of Cinematographers and Journalists. He is married and has three children.

Rewards with medals: "Marshal Baghramyan 100" (Memorial Medal), "Garegin Nzdeh" (Fighting Service), First, Second Degree "Exceptional Service", by Fridtjof Nansen medal.