Hranush Kharatyan

Hranush Kharatyan (Armenian: Հրանուշ Խառատյան; born 18 February 1952)[1] is an Armenian ethnographer.[2] She also specialises in Caucasus studies, minority groups and Armenian studies.[1] She has been a member of the Pre-Parliament civil initiative since November 2012.[3]

Hranush Kharatyan
Հրանուշ Խառատյան
Kharatyan in 2008
Deputy Mayor of Yerevan
In office 1992–1993
Personal details
Born	18 February 1952 Dağ Cəyir, Shamkir District, Azerbaijan Soviet Socalist Republic
Children	2
Education	Yerevan State University
Profession	Ethnographer

Born in the village of Dağ Cəyir, in Azerbaijan's Shamkir District, Kharatyan graduated from the Yerevan State University (YSU) with a history degree in 1975.[4] She earned the degree of a Candidate of Sciences from the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography in Moscow by 1979.[1]

From 1979–1989, Kharatyan worked as a researcher at the Oriental studies Institute of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences.[1] In 1989–1992 she was a research fellow at the Department of Ethnography at the YSU.[1] She headed the same department between 1994 and 2000.[1] In 1992–1993 she was the Deputy Mayor of Yerevan, Armenia's capital.[1] She was appointed head of the Department of National Minorities and Religious Affairs in the Armenian Government[5] in 2004, which she resigned in 2008.[1]

Kharatyan is fluent in Armenian, Russian and has some knowledge of Azerbaijani.[1] She is married with 2 children.[4]