He was born in 1942 in Tiflis, in the family of Ruben Azgaldyan, who moved from Kamo. He worked in various fields of national economy, dealt with planning methodology and issues of automation of management systems, issues of automated systems of scientific studies. In different periods, he held the positions of head of the system programming and computer engineering department of the Yerevan branch of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Atomic Power Plants at the State Plan computing center, at the Scientific and Production Association of Laser Technology, at the “Energy” Scientific and Production Association.