Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan

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name=Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan


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born= May 22, 1939
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placeofbirth=Tbilisi, Georgian SSR
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nickname= Komandos (Командоc)
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rank=Major General
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commands=Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army [Anon. [http://www.nkrusa.org/nk_conflict/chronology.shtml Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Chronology of Key Events February 1988-June 2003] . NKR Office in Washington D.C. Accessed July 16, 2008.]
battles=Nagorno-Karabakh War; Capture of Shusha
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Arkady Ivanovich Ter-Tadevosyan ( _hy. Արկադի Հովհանեսի Տեր-Թադևոսյան; _ru. Аркадий Иванович Тер-Тадевосян; also known by the troops under his command as Komandos ( _ru. Командоc); May 22, 1939 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR) was a military leader of the Armenian forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. Ter-Tadevosyan is best known as being the commander of the operation to capture the town of Shushi in May 1992. [Melkonian, Markar. "". New York: I. B. Tauris, 2005, pp. 219-220 ISBN 1-85043-635-5]

Biography

Ter-Tadevosyan was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. He attended a military academy in Baku.

In May 2000, Ter-Tadevosyan left the Yerkrapah veterans union and founded the Veterans of the War of Liberation organization, although he left it in July of that year, expressing personal grievances about those who had joined it. [Ter-Saakyan, Karine. " [http://www.iwpr.net/index.php?apc_state=hen&s=o&o=p=crs&l=EN&s=f&o=159565 Karabakh Veterans Split by Conflicting Loyalties.] " Institute for War & Peace Reporting. CRS No. 52, October 6, 2000. Retrieved July 16, 2008.]

References

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*hy icon "Tadevosyan, Arkady" entry in the . Yerevan, 2004.