In 1950 he graduated with honors from the history department of
Yerevan State University. In 1951, he completed postgraduate studies at the Academy of Social Sciences, affiliated with the Central Committee of the
CPSU. From 1947 to 1957, Udumian served as deputy secretary of the
Komsomol organization at
Yerevan State University, later becoming secretary, and then first secretary of the Yerevan City Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. From 1957 to 1959, he was the Scientific Secretary of the Coordinating Council of the
Armenian SSR Academy of Sciences. Shortly afterward, he became Scientific Secretary of the Institute of History at the
Armenian SSR Academy of Sciences. From 1959 to 1962, he served as First Secretary of the
Shamshadin District Committee of the
Communist Party of Armenia. In 1963, Udumian became vice-rector of the
Khachatur Abovian Armenian State Pedagogical University, and in 1964, he was appointed rector. From 1967, he worked in the Council of Ministers of the
Armenian SSR. He served as Minister of Culture of the
Armenian SSR from 1967 to 1972, and
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
Armenian SSR from 1972 to 1975. In 1975 Udumian was recalled as
Soviet ambassador to the Kingdom of Nepal, He later served as
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to Luxembourg from 1979 to 1987. In 1987, he was transferred to work in the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR and at the same time in the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, as well as the Soviet Cultural Fund. Udumian died in Moscow on September 3, 2001, at the age of 83. ==References==