Armen Abaghian

Armen Artavazdi Abaghian (Armenian: Արմեն Աբաղյան; January 1, 1933 in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh – November 18, 2005 in Moscow, Russia) was a Russian-Armenian specialist on nuclear power, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor (1985), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1984, he became the general director of "Energy" scientific and industrial state holding and the director of All-Soviet (then Russian) Institute of Atomic Energy Stations (AES). Then he became the deputy director of Rosenergoatom, a member of IAEA Consultative Committee.

He finished the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1956. His works are dedicated to the mathematical models of AES blocks, their security and anti-crisis information data-centers.

On November 18, 2005, he died during a fire that started in the neighboring apartment of a high-rise building where he lived with his family. Being cut off from the exit by the advancing fire and not receiving help from firefighters, Armen Abaghian and his wife Lily jumped from the balcony of their apartment, which was on the 25th floor.^[1]

• Armenian Concise Encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdian, Yerevan, 1990, Vol. 1, p. 7

• Abaghian's death