Norat Ter-Grigoryants
| Norat Ter-Grigoryants | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Նորատ Տեր-Գրիգորյանց |
| Born |
16 July 1936 Vladikavkaz, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Allegiance |
 Soviet Union Armenia
|
| Service/branch |
 Soviet Army Armed Forces of Armenia
|
| Years of service | 1955—1991 1992—1995 |
| Rank | Lieutenant-general |
| Commands held |
40th Army Soviet Ground Forces |
| Battles/wars |
Afghan Civil War Nagorno-Karabakh War |
| Awards | see below |
| Other work |
First Deputy Minister of Defense of Armenia, 1992-1995 Acting Minister of Defense of Armenia, 1993 |
Norat Grigoryevich Ter-Grigoryants (Armenian: Նորատ Տեր-Գրիգորյանց, Russian: Нора́т Григо́рьевич Тер-Григорья́нц; born 16 July 1936) is a retired Soviet and Armenian lieutenant-general who played a leading role in developing the Armed Forces of Armenia during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in 1992-1995.
An ethnic Armenian from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic who served as chief of staff for the Soviet 40th Army in Afghanistan and deputy chief of the Soviet Ground Forces' main staff before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ter-Grigoryants took up the Armenian government's invitation to take command of the Armenian Army in 1992. Ter-Grigoryants became the head of the general staff and the Armenian government's first deputy minister of defense in 1992-1995. He briefly served named Acting Minister of Defense in 1993.
He returned to the Russian Federation since his retirement in 1995 and is a member of the board of the Union of Armenians of Russia.
Norat Ter-Grigoryants was born and educated in the city of Vladikavkaz in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, where his Armenian family had come in the 1920s after fleeing from the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. His parents were from Erzurum Province (part of the Ottoman Empire) and Kars (an Armenian province in the Russian Empire annexed by the Turks in the aftermath of World War I).
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