Gaspar Voskanyan

Gaspar Voskanyan
Born	January 22, 1887 Grigoriopol, Tiraspol uezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	September 20, 1937 Moscow, Soviet Union
Allegiance	Russian Empire Soviet Union
Service / branch	Imperial Russian Army Soviet Red Army
Years of service	1908–1917 (Russian Empire) 1918–1937 (Soviet Union)
Rank	Komkor
Commands	25th Rifle Division 49th Rifle Division 4th Army 12th Army
Battles / wars	World War I Russian Civil War

Gaspar Karapetovich Voskanyan (Arabic: Գասպար Կարապետի Ոսկանյան; Russian: Гаспар Карапетович Восканов, romanized: 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.

Awards

Russian Empire:

• Order of St. George, 4th degree

Soviet Union: Order of the Red Banner

References

Preceded by	Commander of the Red Army 25th Rifle Division November 29, 1918 – February 5, 1919	Succeeded by
Preceded by Pavel Dybenko	Commander of the Soviet 6th Rifle Corps 1923–1924	Succeeded by Konstantin Avksentevsky