Norat Ter-Grigoryants
Retired Soviet and Armenian lieutenant-general (born 1936) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Norat Grigoryevich Ter-Grigoryants (Armenian: Նորատ Գրիգորիի Տեր-Գրիգորյանց, Russian: Нора́т Григо́рьевич Тер-Григорья́нц; born 16 July 1936) is a retired Soviet and Armenian lieutenant-general who played a leading role in developing the Armed Forces of Armenia in 1992–1995, including during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
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Native name | Նորատ Տեր-Գրիգորյանց |
Born | (1936-07-16) 16 July 1936 (age 87) Vladikavkaz, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Allegiance | Soviet Union Armenia |
Service/ | Soviet Army Armed Forces of Armenia |
Years of service | 1955–1991 1992–1995 |
Rank | Lieutenant-general |
Commands held | 40th Army Soviet Ground Forces |
Battles/wars | Soviet–Afghan War First Nagorno-Karabakh War |
Awards | see below |
Other work | First Deputy Defence minister of Armenia, 1992–1995 Acting Defence minister of Armenia, 1993 |
An Armenian from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic who served as chief of staff for the Soviet 40th Army in Afghanistan and deputy chief of the Soviet Ground Forces' main staff before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ter-Grigoryants took up the Armenian government's invitation to take command of the Armenian Ground Forces in 1992. Ter-Grigoryants became the head of the general staff and the Armenian government's first deputy minister of defense in 1992–1995. He briefly served named Acting Defence minister of Armenia in 1993.
He returned to the Russian Federation since his retirement in 1995 and is a member of the board of the Union of Armenians of Russia.[1]