Ashot Navasardian was a Soviet Armenian dissident who founded the Republican Party of Armenia on the eve of the second independence of Armenia.

He was born in Yerevan on March 28, 1950, and graduated from the Faculty of Law of Yerevan State University. In 1968 he became a member of the underground National Unity Party, which advocated for the secession of Armenia from the Soviet Union. He was imprisoned three times for his criticism of the Soviet regime and the promotion of his ideas and sentenced to a total of 17 years of prison and 5 years of exile, of which he spent 12 years in prison and exile, having been released before the sentence terms of his second and third imprisonments. He was finally freed in 1987, and he continued his activities as a member of the council of the Union for National-Self Determination (1988-1989).