Boris Sarkisovich Kevorkov (Russian: Борис Саркисович Кеворков Armenian: Բորիս Կևորկով) (1932–1998) was the First Secretary of the "Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast Committee" of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.
[3] His predecessor Gurgen Melkumyan was removed after leader of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan SSR Heydar Aliyev came into conflict with the Armenian leadership of the autonomous oblast.
Kevorkov and First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party Kamran Baghirov tried and failed to stop the session from taking place.
[5] Late in the evening, 110 Armenian deputies voted unanimously for the resolution, calling for Nagorno-Karabakh to join Soviet Armenia.
[6] As the First Nagorno-Karabakh War intensified, Kevorkov decided to move to Moscow, but was arrested at the airport by the Azerbaijani authorities on May 24, 1992.