Gaspar Voskanyan | |
Birth Date: | January 22, 1887 |
Birth Place: | Grigoriopol, Tiraspol uezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire |
Death Date: | September 20, 1937 |
Death Place: | Moscow, Soviet Union |
Allegiance: | Russian Empire Soviet Union |
Branch: | Imperial Russian Army Soviet Red Army |
Rank: | Komkor |
Serviceyears: | 1908–1917 (Russian Empire) 1918–1937 (Soviet Union) |
Commands: | 25th Rifle Division 49th Rifle Division 4th Army 12th Army |
Battles: | World War I Russian Civil War |
Gaspar Karapetovich Voskanyan (Arabic: Գասպար Կարապետի Ոսկանյան; Russian: Гаспар Карапетович Восканов|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.
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