Norat Ter-Grigorjanz

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Norat Ter-Grigoryanz ( Armenian Նորատ Տեր-Գրիգորյանց ; Russian Норат Тер-Григорьянц ; born July 16, 1936 in Ordzhonikidze , Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , USSR ) is a Soviet-Armenian lieutenant general and retired military commander.

biography

After his military service, Ter-Grigoryanz was admitted to the tank school in Ulyanovsk in 1957. After completing three years of military training, he began his military career with the rank of lieutenant in the Soviet armed forces in the North Caucasus. Over time he rose from commander of a tank reconnaissance force to commander of a tank battalion .

Between 1967 and 1970 Ter-Grigorjanz went through a higher officer training. In 1970 he joined the Malinovsky Military Academy of Armored Forces in Moscow , which he graduated with honors three years later.

In 1978 Ter-Grogorjants was promoted to major general and appointed first deputy chief of staff of the Turkestan military district. When Soviet troops marched into Afghanistan , he was transferred to that country. From mid-1981 to late 1983, Ter-Grigorjanz was Chief of Staff of the 40th Soviet Army in Afghanistan. After almost three years of military service, he was ordered back to Moscow. At the end of 1983 Ter-Grigoryanz was appointed deputy chief of staff of the Soviet ground forces and got the rank of lieutenant general. He remained in this post until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

At the invitation of President Levon Ter-Petrosyan , Ter-Grigoryanz moved to Armenia at the end of 1991 and was tasked with founding the Armenian armed forces. On August 10, 1992, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armenian Forces and then Deputy Minister of Defense of Armenia. Between 1993 and 1995 he served as the country's defense minister. Six months after the end of the Nagorno-Karabakh War , Ter-Grigoryanz resigned from his ministerial post and returned to Moscow. Since December 2006 he has been President (now retired) of the Veterans' Council of the Russian Land Forces and a member of the board of the Union of Russia- Armenians.

Others

Ter-Grigoryanz is known for his frequent anti-Turkish and anti-Azerbaijani utterances. In one of his appearances in April 2017, he called on the government of Russia to annul the Moscow Treaty (1921) with Turkey and to annex the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic , which is part of Azerbaijan, to Armenia.

In an interview with the Armenian newspaper Jerkramas published in Krasnodar in January 2018, Grigoryanz emphasized that the Armenians were guilty of not having "completely destroyed" the Republic of Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh War in the early 1990s.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Генерал-лейтенант Норат Григорьевич Тер-Григорьянц - Союз ветеранов ВИИЯ. Retrieved October 31, 2018 (ru-RU).
  2. ↑ Тер-Григорьянц Норат Григорьевич | Центр военно-политических исследований. Retrieved October 31, 2018 (Russian).
  3. ↑ Noev Kovcheg Media: Норат Тер-Григорьянц: "Армянскому народу нужен свой приказ". Retrieved October 31, 2018 (Russian).
  4. ↑ Running Time Studio: Норат Тер-Григорьянц . In: HayasaNews . June 15, 2012 ( hayasanews.com [accessed October 31, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Генерал-лейтенант Норат Тер-Григорьянц: спустя 102 года мир должен содрогнуться . In: Армянский музей Москвы и культуры наций . ( armmuseum.ru [accessed October 31, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Арам Аматуни: Норат Тер-Григорянц: Армяне виноваты только в одном - в том, что не полностью разгромили Азербайджан. January 27, 2018, accessed March 31, 2019 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Ter-Grigorjanz, Norat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Armenian lieutenant general and retired military commander
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Ordzhonikidze , Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , USSR