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Yerkrapah Volunteer Union (Armenian: «Երկրապահ» կամավորական միություն, ԵԿՄ «Yerkrapah» kamavorakan miut'yun, YeKM) or Yerkrapah Union of Veterans, meaning Defenders of the Land, is an Armenian non-governmental group that consisted of 6,000 veterans of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, formed by Vazgen Sargsyan. [5]
Ivan Bagramyan, who is the namesake for the medal, during a military parade in Riga in 1955.. The Marshal Baghramyan Medal is awarded to persons who participated in hostilities in the Second World War, labor veterans who are actively involved in the education of youth in a military-patriotic spirit, generals and officers, rank and file and sergeants of the armed forces, which were directly ...
Still, Armenia played a valuable role in aiding the allies both through industry and agriculture. An estimated 300–500,000 Armenians served in the war, almost half of whom did not return. [22] Armenia thus had one of the highest death tolls, per capita, among the other Soviet republics. Armenian Marshals and Admiral of World War II on stamps:
Armenian American veterans from Boston in Washington on 14 April 1920. The first recorded Armenian to visit North America was Martin the Armenian, from Iran. He was an Iranian Armenian tobacco grower who settled in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1618. [5] [6] In 1653–54, two Armenians from Constantinople were invited to Virginia to raise silk worms.
The Artsakh Freedom Fighters Union (Armenian: Արցախի ազատամարտիկների միություն) was a military veterans organization of the Artsakh Defence Army. It served as an organization that honours Soviet /Armenian veterans of war, whether they hailed from Armenia or the de facto Republic of Artsakh (Republic of Nagorno ...
VOMA (Armenian: Ողջ մնալու արվեստ, lit. 'Art of Survival') is an Armenian non-governmental organization established in 2014, created by a group of professional military personnel and veterans who announced their purpose to develop a society capable of defending itself in a war. [1]
It was formed in January 1991 in Yerevan by volunteers from Armenia, the diaspora, and Artsakh. It was a large special operations force whose declared goal was to preserve the self-determination of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh. [4] [5] Crusaders [6] «Խաչակիրներ» ջոկատ «Khachakirner» jokat Garo Kahkejian: The Deers
Vardan Stepanyan (Armenian: Վարդան Ստեփանյան; March 9, 1966 – July 3, 1992), better known as Dushman Vardan, [A] was an Armenian military commander during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. He is considered a hero in Armenia.