• Source: Gaspar Voskanyan

Gaspar Karapetovich Voskanyan (Arabic: Գասպար Կարապետի Ոսկանյան; Russian: Гаспар Карапетович Восканов, romanized: Gaspar Karapetovich Voskanov January 22, 1887 – September 20, 1937) was a Soviet komkor (corps commander). An ethnic Armenian, he was born in Grigoriopol, in the Russian Empire (now in Transnistria, Moldova). He fought in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks during the subsequent civil war. During the Great Purge, he was arrested on May 28, 1937, and later executed.




Awards


Russian Empire:

Order of St. George, 4th degree
Soviet Union:
Order of the Red Banner




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Gaspar Voskanyan
• List of people who were executed
• Tsarist officers in the Red Army
• 25th Rifle Division
• Komkor
• 4th Army (RSFSR)
• 6th Rifle Corps
• 12th Army (RSFSR)
• Aram (given name)
• Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic