Martirosyan, Sarkis Soghomonovich

Sarkis Sogomonovich Martirosyan was born on September 8 (21), 1900 in the village of Matras, now in the Shamakhi region of Azerbaijan, into a priest's family. Armenian ^[1]

He graduated from the village school and Gevorgyan Theological Seminary in Etchmiadzin .

Civil War

In May 1918 he joined the Red Guard as part of the 19th Red Guard Guards Battalion of the Baku Commune , after which he took part in the hostilities to protect Baku from attacking Turkish troops in the areas of the cities of Kurdamir , Geokchay and Shemakha .

In July 1919, he was drafted into the army of the Armenian bourgeois republic and sent to the rank and file of the Erivan guard guard battalion, and then transferred to the 1st Armenian cavalry regiment, where he served as an ordinary and junior non-commissioned officer .

After the establishment of Soviet power in Armenia, Martirosyan voluntarily drafted into the ranks of the Red Army in November 1920 , after which he served as a gunner and machine gun platoon commander. From February to April 1921 he took part in the suppression of the Dashnak uprising , and then in the fighting during the Erivan operation .

Interwar

In June 1922 he was sent to the 2nd Armenian Rifle Regiment ( 76th Armenian Rifle Division , Separate Caucasian Army ), where he served as platoon commander, company, chief of staff of the regiment.

He graduated from the machine gun department of the repeated courses of the command staff at the headquarters of the Separate Caucasian Army in Tbilisi in 1924 , the intelligence department of the same courses in 1925, and the advanced training courses for intelligence personnel in Moscow in 1928 . In 1925 he joined the ranks of the CPSU (b) .

From October to November 1930 he took part in the hostilities against banditry in the territory of Armenia. Since April 1931, he served in the headquarters of the 76th Infantry Division as assistant chief of the 1st Division and chief of the 2nd unit, and since October 1937, as the chief of staff and assistant chief of staff of the same division.

In July 1938, Martirosyan was arrested, after which he was under investigation by the NKVD and by order of the NGO from August 5 of the same year was dismissed from the ranks of the Red Army . In June 1939 he was released due to a lack of corpus delicti and then reinstated in the Red Army personnel, after which he was appointed to the post of chief of the operational department of the headquarters of the 121st Infantry Division ( Belarusian Military District ), while on which he took part in hostilities during Campaign in Western Belarus .

In March 1941, he was appointed chief of staff of the 227th Infantry Division ( Kharkov Military District ).

World War II

With the outbreak of war, Lieutenant Colonel Martirosyan was in his former position and took part in the hostilities on the Southern Front . From July 24 to July 31, 1941 he served as division commander.

In September 1941, he was appointed commander of the 340th Infantry Division , which was forming in the city of Balashov . After the formation was completed, the division under the command of Martirosyan was relocated to the Tula region in November of the same year, after which, during the Battle of Moscow, she took part in the hostilities during the Tula defensive and offensive , Kaluga offensive operations and was soon withdrawn to the reserve. After replenishment, the division participated in the Voronezh-Voroshilovgrad , Voronezh-Kharkov , Ostrogozh-Rossoshansk , Voronezh-Kastornna operations and the Third Battle of Kharkov , as well as in the liberation of the cities of Ostrogozhsk , Stary Oskol , Belgorod , Trostyanets , Akhtyrka and Gadyach .

In September 1943, Major General Martirosyan was appointed commander of the 50th Rifle Corps , who took part in hostilities during the Sumy-Priluki , Kiev offensive and defensive , Zhytomyr-Berdychiv and Uman-Botoshansk operations . In contrast to the liberation of the Ukrainian cities of Sumy and Kiev, the corps was given the honorary names of Sumy and Kiev.

In April 1944 he was appointed commander of the 73rd Rifle Corps , which took part in the Iasi-Chisinau , Wisla-Oder , Sandomierz-Silesian , Berlin and Prague offensive operations .

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 29, 1945, for the exemplary performance of command missions at the front of the struggle against the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown to them, Major General Sarkis Soghomonovich Martirosyan was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal (No. 6068).

Post-War Career

After the war he was in his former position.

In July 1945 he was sent to study at the K.E. Voroshilov Higher Military Academy , after which he was appointed in April 1947 to the post of commander of the 27th Rifle Corps ( Carpathian Military District ), and in February 1951 - to the post of assistant commander 7th Guards Army ( Transcaucasian Military District ).

Lieutenant General Sarkis Soghomonovich Martirosyan left the reserve in April 1953 . He died on February 15, 1984 in Yerevan .

• Medal "Golden Star" (05/29/1945);
• Four Orders of Lenin (01/10/1944, 04/06/1945, 05/29/1945, 05/06/1946);
• Four orders of the Red Banner (04/12/1942, 09/13/1944, 11/03/1944, 11/15/1950);
• Two orders of Suvorov 2nd degree (02/08/1943, 05/17/1944);
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (09/19/1980);
• Medals.

• Foreign awards, including the Order of the Legion of Honor in the degree of commander ( USA , 07.26.1944).

• Honorary citizen of the cities of Sumy , Wielum , Wroclaw , Kiev , Mlada Boleslav and Yerevan .

• Colonel ( November 20, 1941 );
• Major General ( December 20, 1942 );
• Lieutenant General ( June 27, 1945 ).

• A street in Kiev is named after the Hero, at the beginning of which a memorial plaque is installed. A memorial plaque was also installed in Yerevan on the house where S. S. Martirosyan lived in recent years.

Team of authors . World War II: Comcor. Military Biographical Dictionary / Edited by M. G. Vozhakin . - M .; Zhukovsky: Kuchkovo Field, 2006. - T. 1. - S. 355-356. - ISBN 5-901679-08-3 .

Martirosyan, Sarkis Soghomonovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".