Ruben Ter-Minasjan
Ruben Ter-Minasjan (also Minasian , Armenian Ռուբէն Տէր Մինասեան * 7. May 1882 in Akhalkalaki , Government Tbilisi , Russian Empire , † November 1951 in Paris , France ) was an Armenian politician, member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Minister of War of the Democratic Republic Armenia .
biography
Ter-Minasjan first visited the religious educational institution Gevorgian in Echmiadzin , then continued his education in Lazarian College in Moscow continued.
After serving in the Imperial Russian Army , Ter-Minasjan joined the nationalist Armenian Revolutionary Federation. In 1905 he was sent to the city of Van as an authorized representative of the ARF , where he met Aram Manukian . In 1906 he went to Sasun to support the Armenian guerrilla fighter Kevork Çavuş in the resistance against the Ottoman troops. After the assassination of Çavuş in May 1907 and the promulgation of the new Ottoman constitution in 1908, Ter-Minasjan took over the leadership of the Armenian uprising against the Ottoman Empire in the province of Sasun.
Ter-Minasjan took part in the fifth world congress of the ARF in Varna and went to Geneva in 1909 to study there. In 1913 he came to the eastern Turkish city of Mus . In 1915, Armenian units in Sasun, commanded by Ter-Minasjan, successfully defended themselves against the regular Turkish armed forces and Kurdish militants.
After the collapse of the tsarist empire , Ter-Minasjan became a member of the Tbilisi- based Armenian National Council in 1917 . After the proclamation of the Democratic Republic of Armenia in May 1918, he was elected to parliament. In the government of Hamo Ohandschanjan he served as Minister of War (May – November 1920) and played a decisive role in the suppression of the Bolshevik uprisings.
After the Sovietization of Armenia he spent some time in südarmenischen Syunik on. At the end of 1920, Ter-Minasjan went into exile in France, Egypt and the Middle East to promote the idea of the independence movement in Armenian communities. In 1948 he moved to France again and spent the last years of his life in Paris.
Ter-Minasjan is the author of the 7-volume work "Memoirs of the Armenian Revolutionaries" (1951–1952).
Individual evidence
- ^ Rouben Ter Minasian [1882–1951] | Hairenik. Retrieved September 18, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Ко дню рождения Минаса (Рубена) Тер-Минасяна . In: Армянский музей Москвы и культуры наций . ( armmuseum.ru [accessed September 18, 2018]).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ter-Minasjan, Ruben |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Տէր Մինասեան, Ռուբէն (Armenian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian politician, member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Minister of War of the Democratic Republic of Armenia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Akhalkalaki , Tbilisi Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1951 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |