Education
Kasyan graduated from Leipzig commercial institute and Berlin University in 1904. Doctor of Philosophy on commercial and philosophical sciences.
Kasyan graduated from Leipzig commercial institute and Berlin University in 1904. Doctor of Philosophy on commercial and philosophical sciences.
He was a Communist party member from 1905. One of the founders of Armenian bolshevik press in 1905, the leader of Tbilisi communist party organization in 1912-1914. In 1919-1920 - chairman of Russian Communist (Bolshevik) party Armenian committee.
On December 2, 1920 Virgin Islands Lenin sent him a telegram welcoming the establishment of Soviet Armenia.
In 1927-1931 he was the chairman of Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic"s Central Executive Committee (government), in 1928-1930 - also the chairman of Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Central Executive Committee.
Since the November, 1920 - a member of Armenian Communist Party Central Committee and chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Armenia, signed the declaration of Sovetization of Armenia. He was an elected member of all-Soviet Central Executive Committee.