Catarines Salian-Manoukian

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Catarines Salian-Manoukian

Katarine Salian-Manoukian ( Armenian Կատարինե Զալյան-Մանուկյան ; † 1965 in Moscow ) was an Armenian politician . She was one of the first three women in the 80-member parliament of the short-lived Democratic Republic of Armenia .

Life

Katarine Salian was a nurse and dedicated herself to helping orphans and refugees. In one of the orphanages she met the teacher and revolutionary Aram Manoukian , who was provisional governor of the Republic of Van for a few months in 1915 . They married in Yerevan in 1917 and had a daughter named Seda. She was four months old when her father died.

During the Caucasus campaign in May 1918, Salian-Manoukian coordinated the deployment of volunteers in the hospitals during the battles of Sardarapat , Bash Abaran and Kara Kilise .

On May 28, 1918, the first Republic of Armenia became independent. Her husband Aram Manoukian became Minister of the Interior , Labor and Defense of the country in November 1918 . In the following month he fell ill with typhus , infected in a refugee camp. Salian-Manoukian was widowed on January 29, 1919.

The young republic gave itself universal suffrage for men and women over the age of 20. Since there was no strong women's suffrage movement in Tsarist Russia , it was Armenian migrants who brought this idea with them from Western Europe. Salian-Manoukian belonged to the Dashnaks and was elected MP with two other women on June 21 and 23, 1919. She was a member of the health committee in the 80-member parliament.

On November 29, 1920, Armenian Bolsheviks took power without bloodshed and on December 2, 1920 proclaimed the Soviet Republic. Four days later marched 11th Army of the Red Army one. As a result, the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed, which in December 1922 co-founded the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Salian-Manoukian was one of the political persecuted by the Armenian Bolsheviks. She went to Krasnodar , but returned to the Armenian SSR in 1927 when she heard that there was a shortage of doctors there. She died in Moscow in 1965.

See also

  • Diana Abgar (1859–1937), Armenian ambassador to Japan in 1920.

literature

  • Sona Zeytlyan: The Role of Armenian Women in the Armenian Revolutionary Movement . Los Angeles 1992.

Web links

Commons : Katarine Salian-Manoukian  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Women’s Suffrage. The Armenian Formula . (English, accessed May 19, 2019)
  2. ↑ a b c The women MPs of the First Republic of Armenia . (English, accessed May 19, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Salian-Manoukian, Catarines
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salian, Katarine (maiden name); Կատարինե Զալյան-Մանուկյան (HyS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 1965
Place of death Moscow