Career
A graduate of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security)’s Institute, in 1974-1995 Basentsi Azoyan occupied high posts in the national security system. In 1980-1982 he was detached to Iran and in 1983-1986 to Afghanistan. Since 1995, Basentsi Azoyan served for the Armenian armed forces.
He died at the age of 59 on June 12, 2006 and was buried at the Yerablur pantheon.
Major-General Azoyan was married with two children.