Day of Missile and Artillery Forces of Armenia
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Rocket and artillery troops played a significant role in strengthening the Armenian national army.
Among the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, there were many Armenians: among them - Suren Akopovich Kasparyan, gunner of the 86th Guards Separate Fighter-Anti-Tank Division of the 82nd Guards Rifle Division of the 8th Guards Army of the 1st Belarusian Front, Guards Sergeant.
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Suren Kasparyan was born in 1924 in the Stepanakert district of Nagorno-Karabakh. He moved to Tashkent and worked there. From December 1942 he served in the Red Army.
Young sergeant Suren Kasparyan distinguished himself in the battles for the expansion of the bridgehead on the west bank of the Vistula River.
In the battle of August 20, 1944, the enemy, seeking to delay the offensive of Soviet troops, launched a counterattack with large infantry forces supported by forty tanks. Nineteen tanks were moving to the firing position of the gun of Sergeant Kasparyan S.A. But the gunners did not waver and entered into an unequal battle. Kasparyan’s gunner hit a heavy tank with the first shot. A few minutes passed and four more tanks froze in place. The remaining avalanche of enemy tanks turned back. The counterattack was repulsed, but at the last minute an enemy shell hit the gun and seriously wounded its gunner. Despite the serious wound, Sergeant Kasparyan did not leave the front line until the end of the fight.
For the courage and courage shown by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 18, 1944, the guard sergeant Kasparyan Suren Akopovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of Patriotic War of the 1st degree, medals.
In 1956, Captain S. Kasparyan returned to his homeland. Before leaving for a well-deserved rest, he worked as a master in Yerevan at the YerAZ plant. He died on January 3, 1994.
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