Simon Achikgyosyan

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Simon Achikgjosjan ( Armenian Սիմոն Աչիկգյոզյան ; born February 6, 1939 in Galați , Romania ; † April 30, 1991 in the village of Qarabulaq (Armenian Martunas), Göygöl , Azerbaijani SSR , USSR ) was one of the leaders of the paramilitary Armenian military units in the north of Nagorno Karabakh - Region of Azerbaijan between 1989 and 1991.

biography

Achikgjosjan, who was born in Galați, Romania , moved with his family to Soviet Armenia in 1946 . In 1960 he graduated with honors as an engineering geologist from Yerevan State University . From 1961 to 1990 he worked as at the Institute of Geology of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR . In 1970 he received his doctorate in the field of geosciences. Achikgjosjan is the author of over 70 scientific publications on the geology and minerals of Armenia .

With the escalation of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Achikgjosjan joined the separatist Armenian movement in Nagorno-Karabakh in 1988. In 1989 he decided to join the ranks of the Arabo fighters (voluntary Armenian militias, mostly from Syria and Lebanon ) to take part in acts of war against Azerbaijan . In 1990 he was elected to the Yerevan City Council. With the expansion of the military clashes from 1991, Achikgjosjan was at the head of the armed groups he had formed in the village of Qarabulaq in the province of Xanlar (today Göygöl) in the north of Nagorno-Karabakh .

At the end of April 1991, the Soviet Army and OMON , the special unit of the Azerbaijani police, launched Operation "Ring" to disarm the Armenian militias in the region. In the course of this military campaign Achikgjosjan was shot on April 30th.  

Literature and individual references

  1. ^ A classroom, called after the perished freedom fighter Simon Achikgozyan was opened at the YSU Faculty of Geography and Geology. April 29, 2011, accessed July 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Shushan Stepanyan: Սիմոն Աչիկգյոզյան. «Ինչ լինում է, թող ինձ լինի». In: hayvinzor.am. July 2011, accessed July 6, 2019 (Armenian).
  3. ↑ Pierre Verluise: Armenia in Crisis: The 1988 Earthquake . Wayne State University Press, Detroit 1995, ISBN 978-0-8143-2527-8 .
  4. ↑ Thomas de Waal: Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War . New York University Press, New York 2003, ISBN 0-8147-1945-7 , pp. 114 .
  5. ↑ Today marks 20th anniversary of Getashen tragedies. April 30, 2011, accessed July 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Achikgjosjan, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Աչիկգյոզյան, Սիմոն (Armenian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian leader of the paramilitary Armenian military units in Nagorno-Karabakh
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Galați , Romania
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1991
Place of death Qarabulaq (Martunas in Armenian), Göygöl , Azerbaijani SSR , USSR