Grigory Khakhanyan Explained

Grigory Davidovich Khakhanyan
Birth Date:January 10, 1896 (O.S. December 29, 1895)
Birth Place:Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire
Death Date:February 22, 1939
Death Place:Soviet Union
Allegiance:Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Branch:Imperial Russian Army
Soviet Red Army
Rank:Komkor
Battles:World War I
Russian Civil War

Grigory Davidovich Khakhanyan (January 10, 1896 – February 22, 1939) was a Georgian-born ethnic Armenian Soviet komkor (corps commander). 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 February 1, 1938, and executed the following year.

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