The 5th Army Corps ( hy, 5-րդ բանակային կորպուս) is a

corps Corps (; plural ''corps'' ; from French , from the Latin "body") is a term used for several different kinds of organization. A military innovation by Napoleon I, the formation was first named as such in 1805. The size of a corps varies great ...

, a

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, of the

Armenian Army The Armed Forces of Armenia ( hy, Հայաստանի զինված ուժեր, Hayastani zinvats uzher), sometimes referred to as the Armenian Army ( hy, Հայկական Բանակ, Haykakan Banak), is the national military of Armenia. It consist ...

. The 5th Army Corps was formed in 1998. The corps commander is Smbat Grigoryan.

Structure

The corps consists of the following: * 9th

Fortified Region A fortified district or fortified region (russian: Укреплённый район, Укрепрайон, ukreplyonny raion, ukrepraion) in the military terminology of the Soviet Union, is a territory within which a complex system of defense f ...

* 4th Independent Motor Rifle Regiment ''"Tamanyan"'' (Yerevan) * 545th Motor Rifle Regiment ''"

Andranik Ozanyan 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 ...

"'' (Nurabashen) *61st Separate Engineering Regiment (

Echmiadzin Vagharshapat ( hy, Վաղարշապատ ) is the 4th-largest city in Armenia and the most populous municipal community of Armavir Province, located about west of the capital Yerevan, and north of the closed Turkish-Armenian border. It is comm ...

) It also has reconnaissance, tank, and artillery battalions as well as self-propelled artillery and rear service battalions.

Activities

Units from the corps are stationed close to the Armenian-Turkish border. Together with the

Russian 102nd Military Base The Russian 102nd Military Base ( hy, Ռուսական 102-րդ ռազմակայան; russian: 102-я российская военная база) is a Russian military base in Gyumri, Armenia, under the command of the Southern Military Distric ...

, the corps makes up the

United Group of Forces The United Group of Forces (; ) is a joint unit with the Armed Forces of Armenia and the Russian Armed Forces. It is composed of management bodies and units and formations of both militaries: the Russian 102nd Military Base and the Armenian Army's ...

, set up in 2000 by President

Robert Kocharyan Robert Sedraki Kocharyan ( hy, Ռոբերտ Սեդրակի Քոչարյան ; born 31 August 1954) is an Armenian politician. He served as the President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic from 1994 to 1997 and Prime Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh from ...

and President

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. Units of the corps took part in the 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani skirmishes. The corps was thought to be a key player during the

2021 Armenian coup d'état attempt The 2021 Armenian political crisis was an alleged military coup attempt by the Armed Forces of Armenia led by the Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces Onik Gasparyan against the government of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pas ...

Commanders

*Major General

Seyran Ohanyan Seyran Musheghi Ohanyan ( hy, Սեյրան Մուշեղի Օհանյան; born 1 July 1962) is an Armenian general and politician currently serving as a deputy in the National Assembly of Armenia. He served as Defence Minister of Armenia from 14 ...

(1998-1999) *Major General Haykaz Baghmanyan (1999-?) *Major General Valeri Grigoryan (?-20 July 2007) *Major General

Andranik Makaryan Andranik Artavazd Makaryan ( hy, Անդրանիկ Արտավազդի Մակարյան) is an Armenian Army lieutenant general. He is a Deputy Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff. He has also held various senior positions in the armed forces. ...

(20 July 2007-June 2013) *Major General Kamo Kochunts (June 2013-13 November 2015) *Major General

Karen Abrahamyan Karen Abrahamyan (Armenian: Կարեն_Աբրահամյան; born 4 December 1966) is a politician and general, who is the former Minister of Defence of Artsakh. Biography He was born in the village of Khcaberd of the Hadrut Province of the Aze ...

(13 November 2015 – 28 September 2017) *Major General

Artak Davtyan Artak Matevosi Davtyan (Armenian: Արտակ Մաթևոսի Դավթյան; born March 31, 1970) is an Armenian Lieutenant General who served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces from May 2018 to June 2020 and again fro ...

(28 September 2017 – 24 May 2018) *Major General Andranik Piloyan (18 June 2018 – 30 December 2020) *Major General Smbat Grigoryan (30 December 2020 – present)

Decorated servicemen

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Jivan Abrahamyan was part of the corps. 15 knights of the "Combat Cross" 1st and 2nd degree orders and 195 fighters of the corps were awarded medals of the Republic of Armenia and the

Nagorno Karabakh Republic Artsakh, officially the Republic of Artsakh () or the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (),, is a breakaway state in the South Caucasus whose territory is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan. Artsakh controls a part of the former N ...

. Two are recipients of the "Combat Cross" Order of the 1st degree, 19 are recipients of the "Combat Cross" Order of the 2nd degree and 102 fighters were awarded the Medal of Courage and 14 the Medal of Combat Service.

Honors

The 4th Independent Motor Rifle Regiment retains the battle flag and the traditions of the 89th Tamanyan Division of the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

. The battle flag of the regiment holds the Order of the Battle Cross of the 1st degree.

References

{{Armenian Armed Forces Military units and formations established in 1998 Army corps of Armenia