Norat Ter-Grigoryants

Norat Ter-Grigoryants
Norat Ter-Grigoryants in October 2019
Native name
Նորատ Տեր-Գրիգորյանց
Born (1936-07-16) 16 July 1936 (age 88)
Vladikavkaz, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
AllegianceSoviet Union Soviet Union
Armenia Armenia
Service / branch Soviet Army
Armed Forces of Armenia
Years of service1955–1991
1992–1995
RankLieutenant-general
Commands40th Army
Soviet Ground Forces
Battles / warsSoviet–Afghan War
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
Awardssee below
Other workFirst Deputy Defence minister of Armenia, 1992–1995
Acting Defence minister of Armenia, 1993

Norat Grigoryevich Ter-Grigoryants (Armenian: Նորատ Գրիգորիի 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 in 1992–1995, including during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

An 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 Ground Forces 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 as named Acting Defence minister of Armenia 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.[1]

  1. ^ Avagyan, Karine (24 September 2011). "I Have Strong Ties with my Homeland..." Hayern Aysor. Retrieved 19 December 2011.