Avetisyan
Avetisyan ( arm, Ավետիսյան) is an Armenian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arsen Avetisyan (born 1973), an Armenian football player * Erdzhanik Avetisyan (born 1969), an Armenian and Russian sport shooter * Hunan Avetisyan (1913–1943), a Soviet senior sergeant awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union * Khachatur Avetisyan (1926–1996), an Armenian-Soviet composer * Minas Avetisyan (1928–1975), an Armenian painter * Varduhi Avetisyan (born 1986), an Armenian swimmer See also * Avedisian * Avetis (other) {{surname, Avetisyan Armenian-language surnames ...
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Hunan Avetisyan
Hunan Avetisyan ( hy, Հունան Ավետիսյան, russian: Уна́н Мкрти́чович Аветися́н; 20 July 1914 – 16 September 1943) was a Soviet Union, Soviet Red Army senior sergeant from the 89th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 89th Rifle Division who sacrificed his life by covering the embrasure of a Nazi Germany, German machine gun pillbox with his body so that his fellow soldiers could keep moving against the enemy in the Novorossiysk-Taman Operation of the Battle of the Caucasus. He was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and Order of Lenin in recognition of his sacrifice by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in May 1944. Biography Hunan Avetisyan was born to an Armenian family in Tsav, Armenia, Tsav, a village of the Armenian Erivan Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in Syunik Province, Armenia) on 2 May 1913.Ivan Shkadov, Shkadov, I.N. et al. (eds.) (1987). ''Geroi Sovetskogo Soyuza: Kratky biografichesky slovar' ...
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