From 1981 to 1983 he worked at the Armenia Ethnography Museum. In 1986 he returned to his hometown to work as the director of the Hadrut Historical-Geological Museum. In 1988 he defended his PhD thesis and received the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences.
From 1981 to 1983 he worked at the Armenia Ethnography Institute. Later, in 1986, he returned to his hometown to work as the head of the Hadrut Museum of Natural History. In 1988 he completed his doctoral studies and received a degree in Historical Studies.