Arkady Ter-Tatevosyan
| Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan | |
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Ter-Tadevosyan in Shushi in 2012
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| Native name | Արկադի Տեր-Թադևոսյան |
| Birth name | Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan |
| Nickname(s) | Komandos (in Nagorno-Karabakh) Mountain Fox (in Afghanistan) |
| Born |
22 May 1939 Tbilisi, Soviet Georgia, Soviet Union |
| Allegiance |
 Soviet Union Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Armenia
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| Service/branch |
 Soviet ArmyNagorno-Karabakh Defense Army  Armed Forces of Armenia
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| Rank | Major General (1992) |
| Commands held | Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army |
| Battles/wars |
Soviet-Afghan War Nagorno-Karabakh War Capture of Shusha |
| Awards | see below |
Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan (Armenian: Արկադի Տեր-Թադևոսյան; Russian: Аркадий Тер-Тадевосян; also known by the troops under his command as Komandos (Armenian: Կոմասնդոս); born May 22, 1939) is a Soviet and Armenian Major General, a military leader of the Armenian forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh War and Armenia's former Deputy Minister of Defense. Ter-Tadevosyan is best known as being the commander of the operation to capture the town of Shushi in May 1992.
Ter-Tadevosyan was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. After graduating from a high school in Tbilisi, he decided to become an officer. He attended the Baku Combined Arms Command School and later Leningrad Military Academy of Rear Services and Transportation. He served in Afghanistan where he earned the nickname, Mountain Fox. He continued his military service in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Belarus, and also served as a lecturer at the Armenian State Agrarian University. With the breakup of the Soviet Union and the brewing conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Ter-Tadevosyan took part in organizing in 1990 the defense of Armenian villages straddling the borders of Soviet Azerbaijan. He joined the Sasuntsi Davit Detachment to defend villages from constant attacks launched by Azerbaijani militants.
Thereafter, he went to Nagorno-Karabakh to train soldiers. Ter-Tadevosyan was appointed Head of Training Corps Defense Committee in 1991. In 1992 he was named commander of the operation (dubbed Wedding in Mountains) to seize the strategic town of Shushi, the capture of which in May 1992 marked the first significant military victory by Armenian forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. Ter-Tadevosyan is known in Armenia as the "mastermind of Shushi liberation". He participated in the formation of the Armenian armed forces and assisted it to overcome significant challenges before it could emerge as a well-developed institution. On 25 May 1992, Ter-Tadevosyan was awarded the rank of Major General for his accomplishments during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. He also received the Order of the Combat Cross (1st class).
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