Garegin Nzhdeh

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Armenian politician and philosopher (1886-1955)

PoliticiansLived 1886 to 1955 · aged 69

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Garegin Ter-Harutyunyan, better known by his nom de guerre Garegin Nzhdeh, was an Armenian statesman, military commander and nationalist revolutionary.

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Garegin Nzhdeh during the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913

Nzhdeh mugshot, 1911

General Garegin Nzhdeh and Colonel Ruben Narinian in autumn 1920

Nzhdeh in Goris, Republic of Mountainous Armenia (1921)

Nzhdeh at the founding of the Armenian Youth Federation in Boston in 1933

House of Nzhdeh in Sofia

Commemorative plaque on the house of Nzhdeh in Sofia, where he was arrested in 1944

Awards 6

1916Cross of St. George 2nd class

1916Cross of St. George 3rd class

1915Order of Saint Anna, 4th class

1915Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class

1912Order of Bravery

Order of Saint Stanislaus

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MotherTiruhi Gyulnazaryan

Connected to Garegin 6

Ivan TyulenevAlso won Cross of St. George 2nd class

Ivan PyryevAlso won Cross of St. George 3rd class

Aleksandar RankovićAlso won Order of Bravery

Moša PijadeAlso won Order of Bravery

Sydir KovpakAlso won Cross of St. George 3rd class

Anatoly Petrovich AlexandrovAlso won Cross of St. George 2nd class

About this person

Garegin Ter-Harutyunyan, better known by his nom de guerre Garegin Nzhdeh, was an Armenian statesman, military commander and nationalist revolutionary. As a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, he was involved in the national liberation struggle and revolutionary activities during the First Balkan War and World War I and became one of the key political and military leaders of the First Republic of Armenia (1918-1921). He is widely admired as a charismatic national hero by Armenians.