Kocharyan, Laura Bush, Lyudmila Putina and Zorka Parvanova – first ladies of Armenia, the United States, Russia and Bulgaria respectively in 2003.

Bella Kocharyan (Armenian: Բելլա Քոչարյան; born January 31, 1954 in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh) is the wife of Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and is the current first lady of Armenia. ImageMetadata File history File links First_ladies. ... ImageMetadata File history File links First_ladies. ... Laura Lane Welch Bush (born November 4, 1946) is the wife of the forty-third and current President of the United States George W. Bush and is thereby the First Lady of the United States. ... Zorka Parvanova (born on 4 May 1958, Razlog, Bulgaria) is the first lady of Bulgaria. ... A First Lady is the female spouse of an elected male head of state such as a president or governor. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Province: Stepanakert (City) Area: Altitude: 813 meter (2670 feet) Population: ~40,000 Population density: Latitude: 39° 48 55N Longitude: 46° 45 7E Mayor: Eduard Aghabekian Map of Azerbaijan showing town of Stepanakert within Nagorno-Karabakh. ... Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijani: Dağlıq Qarabağ or Yuxarı Qarabağ, literally mountainous black garden or upper black garden; Russian: Нагорный Карабах, translit. ... President of Armenia is the title of the head of state of Armenia since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. ... Robert Sedraki Kocharian (Armenian: Ռոբերտ Քոչարյան) (born August 31, 1954) is the second president of the third republic of Armenia. ... This article is about the use of the term first lady internationally. ...

Kocharyan graduated the Yerevan Medical Institute's Sanitary-Hygienic Medicine Department in 1978. She worked first as a doctor-bacteriologist and then as a doctor-epidemiologist at the sanitary-epidemiological station in Nagorno-Karabakh. She also held the position of the deputy chief physician of the regional sanitary-epidemiological station and during her final years there (1991-1993) she headed a department at the station.

Currently, Kocharyan is the Honorary President of the All-Armenian Bone Marrow Transplant Donors Register and the Honorary President of the Armenian Branch of Vladimir Spivakov's international benevolent fund "Talented Children of Armenia." Born in Oufa 1944, in the province of Bachkirie, formerly part of the Soviet Union. ...