YEREVAN, JANUARY 12, NOYAN TAPAN. The advisor to the Armenian prime minister, former President of the RA National Academy of Sciences, former deputy of the RA National Assembly, academician, Major General Fadey Sargsyan died on January 10. He was 87. F. Sargsyan received the degree of Doctor of Technical Science in 1975 and that of Academician of the RA National Academy of Sciences in 1977. He conducted research in such fields as computer engineering, automatic control systems and radar control systems. F. Sargsyan worked as top official at the Main Department of Missiles and Artillery of the Artillery Scientific and Technical Committee of the USSR Defense Ministry (1946-1959), then as Director of the Yerevan Research Institute of Mathematical Machines (1967-1977), Academician-Secretary of the Physical and Technical Sciences and Information Science Unit of the RA National Academy of Sciences (1989-1993), and as President of the RA NAS (1993-2006). Since 2006 he was an advisor to the Armenian prime minister. A governmental commission has been set up for organizing F. Sargsyan's funeral.

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