Career
Aghayan was born in the village of Pip, Dashkesan. He headed the branches of Soviet and modern history at the Institute of History (Armenian Sciences Academy), from 1961 to 1968 he directed the Armenian branch of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism. He died in 1982 in Yerevan.
According to hush.am he is buried at in Tokhmakh cemetery with Siranush Aghayan Simoni.