Kristapor Araratov
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Kristapor Gerasimovich Araratov (Araratian, 1876, Nalchik - 1937) was an Armenian military commander, general (1919), the Military minister of Armenia from Mart 1919 to April 1920.
He studied in Tbilisi, then in Saint-Petersburg Mikhailovsky college and Tsarskoe Selo Officer's school, also the courses of Military Academy after Frunze. During the WWI he commanded a brigade at Armenian Separate corps, participated to the Battle of Sardarapat. In 1937 he became a victim of stalinism.
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- In Denikin's Russia and the Caucasus, 1919-1920, by Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts, C. E. Bechhofer, 1971, p. 273
- Concise Armenian Encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, 1990, Vol. 1, p. 343.
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