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Posted 04 December 2000 - 09:20 AM

Does anybody what role/part we took in defending the Soviet Union and our homeland of Armenia??

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Posted 05 December 2000 - 11:54 AM

You may find some information here http://www.armenianh...ronicle208.html

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Posted 06 December 2000 - 01:39 AM

If I can remember correctly , 200000 Armenians lost their lives fighting for the Soviet Union.
The Armenian soldiers were great soldiers and were one of the first to occupy Berlin.

There is also a great Armenian Soviet Marshal , whose name I cannot recal now.

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Posted 06 December 2000 - 02:41 AM

What do you mean you can't remember his name???
Marshall Bagramyan!!!
Don't forget the heros of our nations...

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Posted 06 December 2000 - 06:49 AM

Thanks Garo

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Posted 06 December 2000 - 07:22 AM

I still personally think that Marshal Bagramyan is the best hero of our times out of all Armenians in the world:

His highest decorations: The Hero of the Soviet Union (1944) - For the , The Medal of Lenin (awarded 6 times) The Medal of the October Revolution, The Medal of the Red Banner, Medal of Souvorov - First Class, Medal of Koutouzov - First Class.

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Posted 06 December 2000 - 08:34 AM

Is the Order of lenin the highest.. I can be proud my armenian greatgrandfather got that for his sacrifices in the military during "Velikaya Otechestvenaya Voina"

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Posted 06 December 2000 - 10:06 AM

One of the organizators of antinazi resistance in France was Missak Manouchian.
http://www.cie.fr/ur...cnrd/manouc.htm

And there was an Armenian Legeon in Nazi Germany.

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Posted 08 December 2000 - 01:58 PM

Garo jan that is great... But are there any non french versions??

Oh, and off the subject - if i didnt already say so, thank you for the changes you made on the forum! And taking on some of my suggestions on board!

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Posted 08 December 2000 - 09:56 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Kazza:
Garo jan that is great... But are there any non french versions??

Oh, and off the subject - if i didnt already say so, thank you for the changes you made on the forum! And taking on some of my suggestions on board!


Kazza try to use this link. This will automatically translate that page into English. This is Altavista's service.

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Posted 09 December 2000 - 11:31 PM

My uncles, Martin Antaramian and Armenkety Mardoian fought in the United States Army against the Nazis.

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Posted 10 December 2000 - 12:08 PM

Hey, I heard one famous Nazi general was of Armenian descent? Forgot the name.

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Posted 10 December 2000 - 05:09 PM

Commander of German armoured forces General Guderian.

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Posted 10 December 2000 - 06:27 PM

Barj are you sure he his? I can't find his bio. The only thing is that Heinz Guderian is a son of prussian general.

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Posted 10 December 2000 - 08:29 PM

Garo,
I have read about this somewhere. I don't have the source handy now. It was either "Hitler and Stalin" or the trilogy of WW2 by Viktor Souvorov.
Guderian's being of Armenian descent was mentioned very slightly. There was also some info about the Armenians fighting with the Russian mensheviks from the German side.
I'll look for further info.

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Posted 28 May 2008 - 05:51 PM

over 350,000 Armenians from Soviet Union lost their lives in World War II.

Armenians were among the first to enter Berlin and Dance their Kochari


Armenians Dancing Kochari in Berlin 1945



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Posted 28 May 2008 - 08:15 PM

QUOTE (Aratta-Kingdom @ May 28 2008, 06:51 PM)
over 350,000 Armenians from Soviet Union lost their lives in World War II.

Armenians were among the first to enter Berlin and Dance their Kochari


Armenians Dancing Kochari in Berlin 1945


yes. Tamanyan Division is very famous even today. Also, several heroes of Soviet Union. Marshall Baghramyan, General Army Babajanyan, Nelson Stepanyan, Hunan
Avetisyan, Admiral Isakov, and so on.Attached File  180px_Bagramyan.jpg   12.27KB   8 downloads Marsahal Baghramyan

Edited by hetanos, 28 May 2008 - 08:23 PM.


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Posted 28 May 2008 - 08:27 PM

QUOTE (hetanos @ May 28 2008, 09:15 PM)
yes. Tamanyan Division is very famous even today. Also, several heroes of Soviet Union. Marshall Baghramyan, General Army Babajanyan, Nelson Stepanyan, Hunan
Avetisyan, Admiral Isakov, and so on.Attached File  180px_Bagramyan.jpg   12.27KB   8 downloads Marsahal Baghramyan


Here is Armenian hero, pilot, Nelson Stepanyan.Attached File  150px_Stepanyan.gif   19.5KB   7 downloads

Nelson Gevorkovich Stepanyan (1913-1944), - fought as a dive bomber pilot during the second World War in the Soviet Red Air Force. He was twice awarded with the military title of the Hero of the Soviet Union, the highest title in the former USSR.

Stepanyan was born in Shusha, Elisabethpol Governorate in 1913, but moved with his family to Yerevan, Erivan Governorate at an early age. During the war lieutenant-colonel Stepanyan fought on the Baltic Sea front. He carried out 229 flights, and was reported to having destroyed 78 German trucks, 67 tanks, 63 anti-aircraft guns, 19 mortars, 36 railroad cars, 20 merchantmen and warships (including a naval destroyer) 13 fuel tankers, twelve armored cars, seven long-range guns, five ammunition dumps, five bridges.[1] Although shot down over enemy lines, friendly guerilla fighters aided him to reach back Soviet lines. Stepanyan was called "Storm Petrel of the Baltic Sea" and was awarded twice with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, the latter posthumously. On his final mission sortie, when wounded and with a damaged plane, he rammed his own plane into a German naval warship.

There was three statues dedicated to him: one in Yerevan, second in Liepāja and the last in his home town of Shusha, however, the last one was destroyed. The statue from Liepāja was going to be destroyed too by the order of the new independent Latvian authorities, but it was rescued by the Russian Navy, located in Liepāja until mid-1990es and it was transported to Kaliningrad and now it's placed near the Baltic Fleet Naval Aviation headquaters in Kaliningrad, Russia.[2]


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Hovhanness Stepanee Isakov (Armenian: Հովհաննես Սթեփանի Իսակով, Russian: Иван Степанович Исаков) (22 August [O.S. August 10] 1894 - October 11, 1967) was a Soviet Armenian military commander, chief of staff and Admiral of the Fleet in the Soviet Navy. He played a crucial role in shaping the Soviet navy, particularly the Baltic and Black Sea flotillas during the Second World War. Asides from his military career, Isakov became a member and writer of the oceanographic committee of the Soviet Union Academy of Sciences in 1958 and in 1967, became an honorary member of that of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic's Academy of Sciences.



Isakov was born in the family of an Armenian railway worker in the village of Hadjikhend in the Kars Oblast in the Russian Empire (currently the Kars vilayet of Turkey). He went to Tiflis, Georgia where he studied and graduated in mathematical and science studies in 1913.




In 1917, Isakov traveled to Petrograd, Russia and entered the guardmarineskee of the Imperial Russian Navy and graduated as a warrant officer in March of that year. He continued his service after the Russian Revolution in the Baltic Sea fleet where he served on several warships including the Izyaslav, the Riga, the Kobchik and the Korshun. In 1918, he took part in several battles against the German Imperial Navy until the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which effectively ended the war between Russia and Germany, granting the Baltic Sea to the latter. In March 1918, Isakov participated in the Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet from the naval base at Helsingfors where Russian warships and icebreakers were transferred from the Baltic to the naval base in Krondstadt near Petrograd.

In 1920, Isakov was transferred and served on the destroyer Deyatelnee which patrolled from the Volga River down to the Caspian Sea and later shelled the positions of Allied interventionist forces in the midst of the Russian Civil War. Noted for his distinction during the battles, in 1921 he was made the gun battery commander of the destroyer Izyaslav. From 1922 to 1927, he served as a shtap operative, or a member of the deputy chief of staff, of naval forces in the Black Sea Fleet. In 1928, Isakov completed advanced courses on senior officer training from the Leningrad Naval Academy.

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In 1932, Isakov became the professor and the overall art department head of the Soviet Naval Military Academyand taught as a professor for five years until being promoted commander of the Baltic Fleet. In 1938, he was made a podpolkovnik or lieutenant colonel and chief of main naval headquarters. During the Winter War, he coordinated not only the movement of naval warships in the Baltic Sea but also the Red Army in the Soviet war against Finland.

With the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the Soviet Navy's manpower decreased substantially due to a need of men needed to help stave off advances made by Nazi Germany. Nevertheless, Isakov temporarily served in the Soviet Red Banner Northern Fleet until 1942 where he became a commander in the North Caucasus front where German forces were attempting to penetrate the oil fields of Baku. There, he was a member of the North-Caucasian Directive, a military council which planned operations and directed naval forces defending in the region. He was responsible for the successful naval landing by Soviet forces on the Kerch peninsula, then held by German forces. On October 4, 1942, Isakov was injured in a German bombing raid in Tuapse and had his foot amputated, spending the remainder of the war in a field hospital.



On May 31, 1944, Isakov was promoted to the service rank of admiral of the flotilla.

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Posted 28 May 2008 - 08:52 PM

I could not find personal photo of Hamazasp Babajanyan. He was marshall of Tank armored forces of Soviet Union. His Army fought against Guderian at
Kursk if I'm not mistaken.


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Edited by hetanos, 28 May 2008 - 08:53 PM.


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