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Yerablur
Yerablur ( hy, Եռաբլուր, translation=based on three hills) or Yerablur Military Pantheon is a military cemetery located on a hilltop in the outskirts of Yerevan, Armenia. Since 1988, Yerablur has become the burial place of Armenian soldiers who died during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. History On 26 May 1992, the status of the cemetery was approved by the order of the Government of Armenia. Layout It is located in the western part of Yerevan, on the Yerablur hill, to the right of the Yerevan—Etchmiadzin highway. The height of the hill is 951 m, and the area of the pantheon is 19.22 ha. On the left side of the entrance to Yerablur is the chapel, in front of which is the Museum of the Fallen Freedom Fighters, next to it is the monument commemorating the 39 soldiers of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, further is the monument to the missing Freedom Fighters. In Yerablur are the graves of the National Heroes of Armenia Vazgen Sargsyan, Jivan Ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gurbanmurad Nepesov
Yerablur ( hy, Եռաբլուր, translation=based on three hills) or Yerablur Military Pantheon is a military cemetery located on a hilltop in the outskirts of Yerevan, Armenia. Since 1988, Yerablur has become the burial place of Armenian soldiers who died during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. History On 26 May 1992, the status of the cemetery was approved by the order of the Government of Armenia. Layout It is located in the western part of Yerevan, on the Yerablur hill, to the right of the Yerevan—Vagharshapat, Etchmiadzin highway. The height of the hill is 951 m, and the area of the pantheon is 19.22 ha. On the left side of the entrance to Yerablur is the chapel, in front of which is the Museum of the Fallen Freedom Fighters, next to it is the monument commemorating the 39 soldiers of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, further is the monument to the missing Freedom Fighters. In Yerablur are the graves of the National Hero of Armenia, National Heroes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Vartanants Martyrs Church
St. Vartanants Martyrs Church ( hy, Սրբոց Վարդանանց Նահատակաց եկեղեցի, Srbots Vardanants Nahatakats yekeghetsi) is the Armenian Apostolic Church in the Malatia-Sebastia District of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. It is located on the Yerablur hill, right of the Yerevan-Echmiadzin highway. On the day of Saint Vartanants, the Armenian Apostolic Church holds a liturgy in the church. The church is located next to the Yerablur Military Pantheon. Various Armenian officials visit the church to honor the memory of the fallen Armenian soldiers. History The construction of St. Vardanants Martyrs Church in Yerablur began in 1994 on the initiative of Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin I and Vazgen Sargsyan. The sponsors of the construction of the church are the Armenian Americans Hrach and Victoria Voskanyan. The church was consecrated in 1998 by Archbishop Garegin Nersisyan. Gradually, a community formed around the church, consisting of the parents of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monte Melkonian
Monte Melkonian ( hy, Մոնթէ Մելքոնեան; November 25, 1957 – June 12, 1993) was an Armenian-American revolutionary and left-wing nationalist militant. He was the leader of an offshoot of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) in the 1980s and was a commander in the Armenian army in Nagorno-Karabakh fighting Azerbaijan during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in the early 1990s. Melkonian left the United States and arrived in Iran in 1978 during the beginning of the 1979 Revolution, taking part in demonstrations against the Shah. Following the collapse of the Shah's monarchy, he traveled to Lebanon during the height of the civil war and served in an Armenian militia group in the Beirut suburb of Bourj Hammoud. In ASALA, he took part in the assassinations of several Turkish diplomats in Europe during the early to mid-1980s. He was one of the planners of the 1981 Turkish consulate attack in Paris. He was later arrested and sent to prison in Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monte Melkonyan
Monte Melkonian ( hy, Մոնթէ Մելքոնեան; November 25, 1957 – June 12, 1993) was an Armenian-American revolutionary and left-wing nationalist militant. He was the leader of an offshoot of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) in the 1980s and was a commander in the Armenian army in Nagorno-Karabakh fighting Azerbaijan during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in the early 1990s. Melkonian left the United States and arrived in Iran in 1978 during the beginning of the 1979 Revolution, taking part in demonstrations against the Shah. Following the collapse of the Shah's monarchy, he traveled to Lebanon during the height of the civil war and served in an Armenian militia group in the Beirut suburb of Bourj Hammoud. In ASALA, he took part in the assassinations of several Turkish diplomats in Europe during the early to mid-1980s. He was one of the planners of the 1981 Turkish consulate attack in Paris. He was later arrested and sent to prison in France. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vazgen Sargsyan
Vazgen Zaveni Sargsyan ( hy, Վազգեն Զավենի Սարգսյան, ; 5 March 1959 – 27 October 1999) was an Armenian military commander and politician. He was the first Defence Minister of Armenia from 1991 to 1992 and then from 1995 to 1999. He served as Armenia's Prime Minister from 11 June 1999 until his assassination on 27 October of that year. He rose to prominence during the mass movement for the unification of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia in the late 1980s and led Armenian volunteer groups during the early clashes with Azerbaijani forces. Appointed defence minister by President Levon Ter-Petrosyan soon after Armenia's independence from the Soviet Union in late 1991, Sargsyan became the most prominent commander of Armenian forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. In different positions, he regulated the military operations in the war area until 1994, when a ceasefire was reached ending the war with Armenian forces controlling almost all of Nagorno-Karab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andranik
Andranik Ozanian, commonly known as General Andranik or simply Andranik;. Also spelled Antranik or Antranig 25 February 186531 August 1927), was an Armenian military commander and statesman, the best known '' fedayi'' and a key figure of the Armenian national liberation movement. From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, he was one of the main Armenian leaders of military efforts for the independence of Armenia. He became active in an armed struggle against the Ottoman government and Kurdish irregulars in the late 1880s. Andranik joined the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktustyun) party and, along with other '' fedayi'' (militias), sought to defend the Armenian peasantry living in their ancestral homeland, an area known as Western (or Turkish) Armeniaat the time part of the Ottoman Empire. His revolutionary activities ceased and he left the Ottoman Empire after the unsuccessful uprising in Sasun in 1904. In 1907, Andranik left Dashnaktustyun because he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebouh Nersesian
Arshag Nersesian (; 1872–1940), better known by his nom de guerre Sebouh or General Sebouh (), was an Armenian military commander. He was the right-hand man of General Andranik Ozanian. Early life He was born in 1872 in Tomna (a village north of Bayburt, which is in modern-day Turkey) as Arshag Nersesian. He later took the pseudonym Sebouh. He became involved in Armenian revolutionary activities while as a youth. He received his education in Trebizond (prior to World War I, that Armenian community numbered 30,000) and showed early aptitude as a craftsman. When he was twenty-years-old and working as a shoemaker in a village near Erzincan, his village was slaughtered by Turkish soldiers during the Hamidian massacres, however, he survived and swore to "kill every Turk he set his eyes on". Revolutionary activities In 1889, he left for Constantinople. In 1894, General Sebouh left the Social Democratic Hunchakian Party and joined the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF-Dashnakts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gurgen Margaryan
On 19 February 2004, Gurgen Margaryan ( hy, Գուրգեն Մարգարյան; 26 September 1978 – 19 February 2004), a lieutenant in the Armenian army, was murdered in Budapest, Hungary, by Ramil Safarov, a lieutenant in the Azerbaijani army. In September 2013, a monument dedicated to Margaryan was unveiled in Yerevan. Education Margaryan was born in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. He received his secondary education at School No. 122 in Yerevan and subsequently graduated from the State Engineering University of Armenia with a bachelor's degree in engineering. After completing his mandatory military service term from 1999 to 2001, he became an officer in the Ministry of Defense of Armenia with the rank of lieutenant. Murder On 11 January 2004, he left for Budapest, Hungary, to participate in a three-month English language course which was part of NATO's Partnership for Peace program. On 19 February he was axed, while asleep, by his fellow participant, Azerbaijani Lieutenant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sose Mayrig
Sose Mayrig ( hy, Սօսէ Մայրիկ, 1868 – 1953), born Sose Vartanian, () was an Armenian female '' fedayee'', the wife of famous hajduk leader Aghbiur Serob. She was surnamed ''"mayrig"'' (mother) by Serop's hajduks for her bravery and maternal concern for Armenian youth. She participated in the many fedayee battles. In 1898, after the battle of Babshen, Sose and Serop fled to Sassoun. In 1899, along with her son, Serop and his brothers, she participated in the battle against Kurdish brigands: Serop, their sons and Serop's brothers were killed while Sose Mayrig was wounded. After the Sasun uprising in 1904, she moved to Van and then to the Caucasus. Another son of Sose Mayrig and Serop was killed during the massacre in Erzerum. From 1920, Sose Mayrig lived in Constantinople, then in Alexandria (Egypt), where she died in 1953. Her remains were later moved to the Yerablur military cemetery in Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vardan Stepanyan
Vardan Stepanyan (; March 9, 1966 – July 3, 1992), better known as Dushman Vardan, was an Armenians, Armenian military commander during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. He is considered a hero in Armenia. Early life and service in Afghanistan Vardan Stepanyan was born on March 9, 1966, in Yerevan, Soviet Armenia. After finishing the Tumanyan School #32 of Yerevan in 1983, he was drafted to the Soviet army. He served in Soviet–Afghan War, Afghanistan from 1984 to 1986. For his service there, Stepanyan was awarded with Medal "For Courage" (Russia), Medal "For Courage" and Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR". After being discharged from the Red Army, Stepanyan was admitted into the Yerevan State University Department of Law. Karabakh war Stepanyan joined the Karabakh movement in early 1988. He initially led the group of Armenian veterans of the Afghanistan War in transferring weapons and equipment to Karabakh Armenians. Since 1989, Stepanyan participated in se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garo Kahkejian
Garo Kahkejian ( hy, Կարօ Քահքէճեան Armenian_orthography_reform.html" ;"title="nowiki/> reformed_orthography:_Կարո_Քահքեջյան.html" ;"title="Armenian orthography reform">reformed orthography: Կարո Քահքեջյան">Armenian orthography reform">reformed orthography: Կարո Քահքեջյան 24 March 1962 – 26 June 1993) was a famed Armenian military commander and participant in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. He was the founder and commander of the ''Khachakirner'' ("Crusaders") volunteer detachment, and was also known by his nickname "The White Bear" (''Spitak Arj''). Kahkedjian was the first Armenian from the diaspora who volunteered to go and fight in the Artsakh conflict. Biography Kahkedjian was born in 1962 in Aleppo, Syria. His grandfather Sahak, commonly known by his '' nom de guerre'' Aslan, fought in Western Armenia and Artsakh during the time of the Armenian national liberation movement and was the bodyguard of General Drastamat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenian Secret Army For The Liberation Of Armenia
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) was a militant organization active between 1975 and the 1990s whose stated goal was "to compel the Turkish Government to acknowledge publicly its responsibility for the Armenian genocide in 1915, pay reparations, and cede territory for an Armenian homeland." ASALA itself and other sources described it as a guerilla and armed organization. Some sources, including United States Department of State,United States Department of StatePatterns of Global Terrorism Report: 1989, p 57 as well as the Turkish Department of Culture and Azerbaijani Foreign ministry listed it as a terrorist organization. The principal goal of ASALA was to establish a United Armenia that would include the formerly Armenian-inhabited six vilayets of the Ottoman Empire (Western Armenia) and Soviet Armenia.Terrorist Group Profiles. DIANE Publishing, 1989. p. 32 The group sought to claim the area (called ''Wilsonian Armenia'') that was promised to the Armen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
