Andranik Hakobyan was born in the village of Madina of Martuni Region.

He graduated from the secondary school N.1 of Artashat, afterwards the department of philosophy and sociology of Yerevan State University.

Hakobyan taught history and social sciences in schools, worked as a school supervisor in Artashat District National Educational Department, later in AKP Ararat district commissariat.

Hakobyan is the Chief Adviser of the Minister of Emergency Situations of Armenia.

Hakobyan is the author of poems, short stories, essays, novelettes, journalistic publications.