Bella Kocharyan

Bella Kocharyan
Bella Kocharyan in 2005
First Lady of Armenia
In role 9 April 1998 – 9 April 2008
President	Robert Kocharyan
Preceded by	Lyudmila Ter-Petrosyan
Succeeded by	Rita Sargsyan
Personal details
Born	(1954-01-31) 31 January 1954 (age 70) Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Soviet Union
Nationality	Armenian
Spouse	Robert Kocharyan
Children	Sedrak, Gayane, Levon

Bella Kocharyan (Armenian: Բելլա Քոչարյան; born 31 January 1954, Stepanakert) is the wife of former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and is the former First Lady of Armenia.[1]

Kocharyan graduated the Yerevan Medical Institute's Sanitary-Hygienic Medicine Department in 1978. She worked first as a doctor-bacteriologist and then as a doctor-epidemiologist at the sanitary-epidemiological station in Nagorno-Karabakh. She also held the position of the deputy chief physician of the regional sanitary-epidemiological station and during her final years there (1991-1993) she headed a department at the station.

Currently, she is the Honorary President of the All-Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry and the Honorary President of the Armenian Branch of Vladimir Spivakov's international benevolent fund Talented Children of Armenia.

References

1. "First Lady Bella Kocharyan and Mikhail Shvidkoy attend the "Armenia Sacra" exhibition". Public Radio of Armenia. 10 March 2007. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2011.