Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan

Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan
Nickname Komandos (in Nagorno-Karabakh)
Mountain Fox (in Afghanistan)
Born May 22, 1939 (1939-05-22) (age 72)
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR
Allegiance Soviet Union
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Armenia
Rank Major General
Commands held Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army [1]
Battles/wars Nagorno-Karabakh War
Capture of Shusha

Arkady Ivanovich Ter-Tadevosyan (Armenian: Արկադի Հովհանեսի Տեր-Թադևոսյան; Russian: Аркадий Иванович Тер-Тадевосян; also known by the troops under his command as Komandos (Russian: Командоc); May 22, 1939 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR) was a military leader of the Armenian forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. Ter-Tadevosyan is best known as being the commander of the operation to capture the town of Shushi in May 1992.[2]

Biography

Ter-Tadevosyan was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. He attended a military academy in Saint Petersburg.

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.[3]

References

  1. ^ Anon. Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Chronology of Key Events February 1988-June 2003. NKR Office in Washington D.C. Accessed July 16, 2008.
  2. ^ Melkonian, Markar. My Brother's Road: An American's Fateful Journey to Armenia. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2005, pp. 219-220 ISBN 1-85043-635-5
  3. ^ Ter-Saakyan, Karine. "Karabakh Veterans Split by Conflicting Loyalties." Institute for War & Peace Reporting. CRS No. 52, October 6, 2000. Retrieved July 16, 2008.

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