Leonid Azgaldjan

Leonid Azgaldjan

Leonid Azgaldjan ( Armenian Լեոնիդ Ազգալդյան; born November 22, 1942 in Tbilisi , Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic , USSR ; † June 21, 1992 in Ağdərə (Mardakert), Nagorno-Karabakh , Azerbaijan ) was an Armenian physicist and military commander during the Nagorno-Karabakh War in the early 1990s.

biography

Azgaldjan, who was born in Tbilisi, graduated from Askanas Mrawjan secondary school in Yerevan in 1959 . In 1960 he began studying physics at Lomonosov University in Moscow . He later moved to the Yerevan State University and graduated with honors. After his academic career, Azgaldjan worked in various areas of the national economy of the Armenian SSR , including planning methodology and the automation of government systems. At the same time, he conducted scientific research on automation systems.

With the escalation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Azgaldjan joined the Armenian separatist movement in February 1990. He took part in armed clashes with the Azerbaijani army in the Armenian-populated village of Çaykənd (Գետաշեն, Göygöl) and in the provinces of Schaumjan and Ağdərə. With Howsep Howsepjan, a leader of the Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azgaldjan founded the so-called "Liberation Army" in June 1991. The declared aim was to split the Nagorno-Karabakh region from Azerbaijan through an armed struggle .

Azgaldjan was killed on June 21, 1992 during the fighting near the village of Tonashen.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Азгалдян Леонид. October 19, 2008, Retrieved October 8, 2019 (Russian). 
2. ↑ N.Galstyan: LEONID AZGALDYAN. In: History of Armenia. Institute for Armenian Studies of Yerevan State University. Retrieved October 8, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Арарат Давтян: Леонид Азгалдян: “Я погибну под Стамбулом”. In: Hetq.am. June 21, 2012, Retrieved October 8, 2019 (Russian).