Biography of Babajanyan Amazasas

The project is carried out using the grant of the President of the Russian Federation for the development of a civil society provided by the Presidential Grants Fund, “they fought so that I live! I believe that this topic is relevant for several reasons. Firstly, every year on May 9, our country celebrates Victory Day, this is the very day when the Soviet people at the cost of huge losses won a great victory over the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War.

Secondly, unfortunately, less and less survive veterans, so our task is to collect, study and store material about people who defended our homeland. Thirdly, I believe that each person should know his own genealogy: the fate of his grandfathers and great-grandfathers, and then transmit his knowledge to future generations. It is very important for me that the memory of great -grandfathers remains not only in the form of several photographs and awards, but as a whole story built on the basis of documents and memories.

The relevance of the choice of this topic is that in the near future my research work will find practical application and will be valuable for the museum of military glory or for the local history museum, as well as for creating the book “Our Memory” as part of the implementation of a social project. I have a lot to say about their native great -grandfathers who lived, fought and worked during the Great Patriotic War.

But unfortunately, because of the Karabakh conflict, all my relatives from the Armenian village of Getashain, who is located in Azerbaijan, forcibly evicted, and we lost all the photos and documentary sources of memory about them. But I can literally say that the great -grandfather from his father fought from the first days of the war, was brave, reached Berlin and returned with a victory.

And the great -grandfather from his mother served the motherland from the rear. He was the chairman of the village council during the war years. But I would like to tell you about his cousin Amazaspa Khachaturovich Babajanyan. Amazasas Khachaturovich Babajanyan - Soviet military leader. Marshal of armored troops. Hero of the Soviet Union. Life before the war. Amazasas Khachaturovich Babajanyan was born on February 18 in the village of Cherdakly Elizabethpol province of the Shamkhorsky district of Azerbaijan in the family of a peasant, who had 8 children.

After graduating from five classes of high school, he worked in his father's economy and was Batravil. In the year he joined the Komsomol, after which he became the first secretary of the rural Komsomol cell. In September, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army at the Komsomol call, after which he was sent to study at the Armenian infantry school deployed in Yerevan, and after its disbandment in September, he was transferred to the Transcaucasian Military Infantry School, deployed in Tbilisi.

In March, he was transferred to the 3rd machine gun regiment, deployed in Baku, where he served in the posts of the commander of the machine gun company, the commander of the machine gun battalion and assistant chief of staff of the regiment. In October, he was appointed head of the 1st Branch of the Headquarters of the Air Defense of the Transcaucasian Military District in Baku, in August-for the post of chief of staff of the 3rd machine gun regiment, and in October of the same year-to the position of assistant commander of the 2nd machine gun regiment of the Leningrad Military District.

Soon he took part during the Soviet-Finnish war, during which he was wounded in the battle of February 18. Combat feat. After the recovery of Amazasas Khachaturovich Babajanyan, in December, he was appointed deputy commander of the Rifle Regiment, in January of the year - to the post of deputy commander of the Rifle Regiment, the North Caucasus Military District, and in April of the same year, to the position of assistant chief of the 1st branch of the operational department of the headquarters of the army.

In August, Babadzhanyan was appointed to the post of commander of the Rifle Regiment, I was a rifle division, transformed on September 18 to the 2nd Guards, after which he took part in the Smolensk battle and Yelnin’s offensive, and after the end, which participated as an operational group under the command of the general. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 26, for the skillful leadership of the combat operations of the units of the Guards Mechanized Brigade and successful forcing it, among the first Dniester River, for the personal courage of the guard, Colonel Amazaspu Khachaturovich Babajanyan was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and Golden Medal Star ".

Babajanyan with Marshal I. Bagramyan on the right and aircraft designer A. Mikoyan awards and awards. In honor of Amazasp Khachaturovich Babajanyan, the square in the North-Western Administrative District of Moscow in the year, Street in Yerevan and secondary school in Echmiadzin were named. Since the years in honor of Marshal of Armored Forces, Amazasp Khachaturovich Babajanyan wore a republican special school with a military bias and a deep study of the Russian language, located in Yerevan.

In conclusion, I would like to say - I am proud that our family has such a valiant warrior. In addition, after the war, A. Babajanyan wrote the book of the memoirs of the War Roads.The book of the Hero of the Soviet Union Marshal of the armored troops of A. Babajanyan returns us in the formidable years of the Great Patriotic War, spends through the fields in which the largest tank battles of the centuries rattled.

Thinking over the past, Marshal looks into the future, comprehends the lessons that the war taught us at great price. Melikjanyan Arthur.