Hayrapetyan Arustam Arakelovich
CITY: Petrosashen village, Hadrut region, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Okrug DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1919 DATE OF DEATH: 04/27/2020 HISTORY: Private guard Arustam Arakelovich Hayrapetyan (1919-1993) - - invalid of the Great Patriotic War, commander of the gun crew of the 19th Guards artillery regiment High Command Reserve. As an artilleryman (the commander of a 122 mm gun crew), a participant in the Soviet-Finnish and World War II, he survived during the defensive battles for Sevastopol, Stalingrad and the Caucasus, during the liberation of the cities of Crimea: Kerch and Sevastopol, Ukraine and Poland, but died from hands of non-humans, during the well-known events in Nagorno-Karabakh. He was wounded, the last - in the battles for Poland. My grandfather talked about the deaths of many Red Army soldiers during the landing on the Crimean coast (during a storm they jumped onto sheer cliffs). According to his grandfather, despite the fact that he was the commander of the gun crew, he went on reconnaissance more than once, incl. behind the "language". For a number of successful actions, in addition to medals, he was twice presented for orders. The fate of these documents is not known (the award lists have not yet been displayed on the "People's feat" website). I know the name of only one of the military units where my grandfather fought: the 19th Guards Artillery Regiment of the RGK. My grandfather's military ID, issued on February 23, 1939, has survived. He was drafted by the Hadrut military Commissariat of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous District. The date of demobilization from the army due to another injury and disability was September 8, 1944 (EG-1244). Awards: Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree (1985), medals "For Courage" (2), "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of the Caucasus", "For the Defense of Sevastopol", "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 ", as well as all commemorative medals up to 1990 inclusive. After being cured of the Great Patriotic War, A.A. Ayrapetyan (fingers on one of his hands were amputated), in the fall of 1944 he returned to his native village, started a family, was engaged in agriculture, hunting. Together with his wife, they gave birth and raised 5 children (from whom 21 grandchildren and granddaughters, a huge number of great-grandchildren).