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Today is Artsakh hero, legendary Komandos, Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan's birthday
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2013-05-22 11:50:04
Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, also known by the troops under his command as
Komandos, was born on May 22, 1939. Komandos is a Soviet and Armenian Major
General, a military leader of the Armenian forces during the
Nagorno-Karabakh War and Armenia's former Deputy Minister of Defense.
Ter-Tadevosyan is best known as being the commander of the operation to
capture the town of Shushi in May 1992.
Ter-Tadevosyan was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. After graduating from a
high school in Tbilisi, he decided to become an officer. He attended the
Baku Combined Arms Command School and later Leningrad Military Academy of
Rear Services and Transportation. He served in Afghanistan where he earned
the nickname, Mountain Fox. He continued his military service in East
Germany, Czechoslovakia and Belarus, and also served as a lecturer at the
Armenian State Agrarian University. With the breakup of the Soviet Union
and the brewing conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Ter-Tadevosyan took part in
organizing in 1990 the defense of Armenian villages straddling the borders
of Soviet Azerbaijan. He joined the Sasuntsi Davit Detachment to defend
villages from constant attacks launched by Azerbaijani militants.
Thereafter, he went to Nagorno-Karabakh to train soldiers. In 1992 he was
named commander of the operation (dubbed Wedding in Mountains) to seize the
strategic town of Shushi, the capture of which in May 1992 marked the first
significant military victory by Armenian forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh
War. Ter-Tadevosyan is known in Armenia as the "mastermind of Shushi
liberation". He participated in the formation of the Armenian armed forces
and assisted it to overcome significant challenges before it could emerge
as a well-developed institution.
In May 2000, Ter-Tadevosyan left the Yerkrapah veterans union and founded
the Veterans of the War of Liberation organization, although he left it in
July of that year, expressing personal grievances about those who had
joined it.
The President of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Bako Sahakyan, awarded him with
the Order of the Golden Eagle and the title of Hero of Artsakh. The region
continues to hold much meaning to Ter-Tadevosyan, who spends at least one
week each month there.
Ter-Tadevosyan is currently supervising the training of specialists in the
Armenian armed forces.
http://lurer.com/?p=102097&l=en
2013-05-22 11:50:04
Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, also known by the troops under his command as
Komandos, was born on May 22, 1939. Komandos is a Soviet and Armenian Major
General, a military leader of the Armenian forces during the
Nagorno-Karabakh War and Armenia's former Deputy Minister of Defense.
Ter-Tadevosyan is best known as being the commander of the operation to
capture the town of Shushi in May 1992.
Ter-Tadevosyan was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. After graduating from a
high school in Tbilisi, he decided to become an officer. He attended the
Baku Combined Arms Command School and later Leningrad Military Academy of
Rear Services and Transportation. He served in Afghanistan where he earned
the nickname, Mountain Fox. He continued his military service in East
Germany, Czechoslovakia and Belarus, and also served as a lecturer at the
Armenian State Agrarian University. With the breakup of the Soviet Union
and the brewing conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Ter-Tadevosyan took part in
organizing in 1990 the defense of Armenian villages straddling the borders
of Soviet Azerbaijan. He joined the Sasuntsi Davit Detachment to defend
villages from constant attacks launched by Azerbaijani militants.
Thereafter, he went to Nagorno-Karabakh to train soldiers. In 1992 he was
named commander of the operation (dubbed Wedding in Mountains) to seize the
strategic town of Shushi, the capture of which in May 1992 marked the first
significant military victory by Armenian forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh
War. Ter-Tadevosyan is known in Armenia as the "mastermind of Shushi
liberation". He participated in the formation of the Armenian armed forces
and assisted it to overcome significant challenges before it could emerge
as a well-developed institution.
In May 2000, Ter-Tadevosyan left the Yerkrapah veterans union and founded
the Veterans of the War of Liberation organization, although he left it in
July of that year, expressing personal grievances about those who had
joined it.
The President of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Bako Sahakyan, awarded him with
the Order of the Golden Eagle and the title of Hero of Artsakh. The region
continues to hold much meaning to Ter-Tadevosyan, who spends at least one
week each month there.
Ter-Tadevosyan is currently supervising the training of specialists in the
Armenian armed forces.