Hakob Sanasaryan (Armenian: Հակոբ Սանասարյան; born December 21, 1936, in Yeranos, Armenia) is a leading Armenian environmental activist, author and biochemist, the cofounder of the one of the first environmentalist groups in the former Soviet Union: (Armenian: Գոյապահպանություն meaning survival) in 1985. This group was later in 1989 coined in the press as the (GUA). Hakob Sanasaryan is to this day the president of the GUA.