Zalyan-Manukyan was a nurse and worked at orphanages. Zalyan-Manukyan was a candidate in the
June 1919 parliamentary elections, and was one of three women elected alongside
Perchuhi Partizpanyan-Barseghyan and
Varvara Sahakyan. As a member of parliament, she served on the health committee. After the Bolshevik takeover in 1920, she relocated to
Krasnodar in Russia. She returned to Armenia in 1927, before moving to
Moscow. She died in 1965. ==References==