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Gaspar Voskanyan

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Gaspar Voskanyan
BornJanuary 22, 1887
Grigoriopol, Tiraspol uezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedSeptember 20, 1937
Moscow, Soviet Union
AllegianceRussian Empire
Soviet Union
Service / branchImperial Russian Army
Soviet Red Army
Years of service1908–1917 (Russian Empire)
1918–1937 (Soviet Union)
RankKomkor
Commands25th Rifle Division
49th Rifle Division
4th Army
12th Army
Battles / warsWorld War I
Russian Civil War

Gaspar Karapetovich Voskanyan (Arabic: Գասպար Կարապետի Ոսկանյան; Russian: Гаспар Карапетович Восканов, romanized: Gaspar Karapetovich Voskanov January 22, 1887 – September 20, 1937) was a Soviet komkor (corps commander). An ethnic Armenian, he was born in Grigoriopol, in the Russian Empire (now in Transnistria, Moldova). He fought in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks during the subsequent civil war. During the Great Purge, he was arrested on May 28, 1937, and later executed.

Awards

Russian Empire:

Soviet Union: Order of the Red Banner

References

Preceded by Commander of the Red Army 25th Rifle Division
November 29, 1918 – February 5, 1919 		Succeeded by
Preceded byPavel Dybenko Commander of the Soviet 6th Rifle Corps
1923–1924 		Succeeded byKonstantin Avksentevsky


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