title: Saak Karapetyan
text: # Saak Karapetyan
  
  Saak Albertovich Karapetyan (28 March 1960 – 3 October 2018) was a Russian deputy attorney general of Armenian descent. He was killed in a helicopter crash in October 2018 at age 58.
  
  ## Biography
  
  From 1983 to 1996, Karapetyan was in various positions as a prosecutor of the Rostov region: he started as an intern, reached the head of the department for supervision of the investigation of particularly important cases and operational investigative activities. From 1996 to 2000, he was a State Duma deputy from the Yabloko party, deputy chairman of the security committee.
  
  ## Death
  
  Karapetyan died when a Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil crashed in Kostroma.
  
  