OREANDA-NEWS. December 29, 2010. Vaagn Martirosyan, General Director, CenterTelecom, has been appointed a Vice President of Rostelecom OJSC. He will be responsible for development of the company in Russia's Central Federal District. It is worth adding that a new company is to be formed on basis of Rostelecom by means of its merger with Svyazinvest's inter-regional telecommunications companies. Mr. Martirosyan will retain the post of CenterTelecom's General Director until completion of the process of the company's merger with Rostelecom.

Vaagn Martirosyan was born on December 8, 1951. In 1993 he joined Central Telegraph company as Deputy Director for New Technologies, in July 1995 he was appointed Deputy General Director for Business Development, and in 1997 – First Deputy General Director. In 2001-2007 he was General Director of Central Telegraph OJSC. In June 2007 he was appointed General Director of CenterTelecom OJSC. Mr. Martirosyan has honorary titles such as Master of Telecommunications, Honored Telecommunications Worker. He was awarded the medal “For Labor Valor”.