Feliks Tsolakyan | |
Office: | Minister of Emergency Situations |
Successor: | Andranik Piloyan |
Predecessor: | Hrachya Rostomyan |
President: | Armen Sarkissian |
Primeminister: | Nikol Pashinyan |
Term Start: | 4 October 2018 |
Term End: | 20 November 2020 |
Office1: | Member of the National Assembly of Armenia |
Parliamentarygroup1: | Republican Party of Armenia |
Constituency1: | Shirak |
Office2: | Governor of Shirak |
Predecessor2: | Ashot Giziryan |
President2: | Serzh Sargsyan |
Term Start2: | 7 March 2013 |
Term End2: | 2016 |
Birth Date: | January 27, 1952 |
Birth Place: | Nerkin Dzhrapi, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union |
Party: | Independent |
Rank: | Lieutenant General |
Alma Mater: | Yerevan State University |
Native Name Lang: | hy |
Feliks Hostegovi Tsolakyan (hy|Ֆելիքս Ցոլակյան; born 27 January 1952) is an Armenian political figure and the current Minister of Emergency Situations.
On 1 May 2018, Tsolakyan was the sole member of the Republican Party of Armenia caucus who voted in favour of electing Nikol Pashinyan to the position of Prime Minister.[1]
Tsolakyan was born in the village of Nerkin Dzhrapi, Ani region of Armenian SSR, Soviet Union.[2] Tsolakyan graduated from the History department of Yerevan State University in 1974.
Tsolakyan began his career at the Ararat Industrial and Technological College upon his graduation in 1974. In 1980, he joined the State Security Committee, where he served in police services in Goris and Yeghegnadzor. In 1996, he headed the State Security Committee of the Shirak region, before heading the Control Service of the President of the Republic of the Armenia in 1999. From 2003 to 2007, he headed the State Tax Service. From 2007 to 2013, he was the Deputy Director of the National Security Service in the Armenian civil service.
In 2013, he was appointed Governor of the Shirak marz, where he served until 2016. He was elected to the National Assembly in the 2017 Armenian parliamentary election, representing the 11th electoral district (Shirak), under the Republican Party of Armenia's electoral list. Tsolakyan was appointed as Minister of Emergency Situations of Armenia on 4 October 2018, following the removal of his predecessor by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.[3]
2005: Anania Shirakatsi Medal
2016: Medal “For Services Contributed to the Motherland”