Hamazasp Babadzhanian
| Hamazasp Babadzhanian | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Armenian: Համազասպ Բաբաջանյան Russian: Амазасп Хачатурович Бабаджанян |
| Born |
18 February 1906 Chardakhlu, Russian Empire |
| Died | 1 November 1977 (aged 71) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Buried at | Novodevichy Cemetery |
| Allegiance |
 Soviet Union
|
| Service/branch | Armored Corps |
| Years of service | 1925–1977 |
| Rank | Chief marshal of the armored troops |
| Commands held | 3rd Mechanized Brigade 20th Tank Brigade 11th Guards Tank Corps Odessa Military District |
| Battles/wars |
Soviet-Finnish War World War II Hungarian Revolution of 1956 |
| Awards |
  (4)Order of the Red Star (2) see below |
Hamazasp Khachaturi Babadzhanian (Armenian: Համազասպ Խաչատուրի Բաբաջանյան; Russian: Амазасп Хачатурович Бабаджанян, Amazasp Khachaturovich Babadzhanyan; 18 February 1906 – 1 November 1977) was a Soviet military commander, veteran of the Second World War, and Chief marshal of the armored troops of the Soviet Union. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1944.
Babadzhanian was born into an impoverished Armenian family in the village of Chardakhlu near Yelizavetpol (later Kirovabad, now Ganja, Azerbaijan), then part of the Russian Empire. Ivan Bagramyan, a fellow Armenian who would also go on to become a Marshal of the Soviet Union, was born in the same village. Babadzhanian attended the local, four-year primary school in Chardakhlu before moving to Tiflis (Tbilisi) in 1915 to continue his education at an Armenian secondary school there. His family, however, was unable to support him financially for long and he was forced to return to home, where he went to work in the fields.
In 1925, Babadzhanian applied to the Red Army's Alexander Miasnikyan Unified Military School in Yerevan, Armenia. The school was later relocated to Tbilisi and renamed the Transcaucasus United Infantry School, and he graduated from there as an officer in 1929. He was given various postings throughout the Soviet Union, serving as a commander of a battalion and later as a deputy for the army corps based in the Transcaucasian Military District. Babadzhanian rounded out his studies at the Frunze Military Academy in 1937, attaining the rank of major. In 1938 he was appointed as deputy of the commander of a regiment in Leningrad before being sent to the front following the outbreak of the Finno-Soviet Winter War in 1939-1940. He served with distinction in the fighting and was later given command of the 751st Rifle Regiment, based in the Northern Caucasus Military District.
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