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Movses Silikyan , , Movses Silikov) (1862 - 1937) was a famed Armenian general and national hero, Major General
Major General

Major General or Major-General is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of Sergeant Major General. A Major General is a high-ranking officer, normally subordinate to the rank of Lieutenant General and senior to the ranks of Brigadier and Brigadier General....
 in the Russian
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
 army and subsequently in the Armenian army.

Silikyan graduated from the Moscow Military Gymnasium, Alexandrople Military School and the officer rifle school. From 1884 he served in the Russian Army, being promoted from battalion adjutant to division commander.

On the eve of the First World War he was the deputy commander of the forces stationed in Yerevan
Yerevan

Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia. It is situated on the Hrazdan River, and is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country....
 participating in the Caucasian Front
Caucasian Front

Caucasian Front may have one of the following meanings*Caucasian Front was the Russian military activities on Caucasus Campaign and Persian Campaign....
.

915, Colonel Silikyan commanded a regiment during the Van resistance
Van Resistance

The Resistance at Van was an insurgency against the Ottoman Empire's attempts to eliminate the Ottoman Armenian population population in the Van Province, Ottoman Empire....
.

In 1916, Colonel Silikyan took part in taking of Mush
Mus Province

Mus is a Provinces of Turkey in eastern Turkey. It is 8,196 km? in area, and has a population of 488,997 . The population was 453,654 in 2000. Kurdish people form the majority....
 during the Battle of Mush.






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Movses Silikyan , , Movses Silikov) (1862 - 1937) was a famed Armenian general and national hero, Major General
Major General

Major General or Major-General is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of Sergeant Major General. A Major General is a high-ranking officer, normally subordinate to the rank of Lieutenant General and senior to the ranks of Brigadier and Brigadier General....
 in the Russian
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
 army and subsequently in the Armenian army.

Silikyan graduated from the Moscow Military Gymnasium, Alexandrople Military School and the officer rifle school. From 1884 he served in the Russian Army, being promoted from battalion adjutant to division commander.

On the eve of the First World War he was the deputy commander of the forces stationed in Yerevan
Yerevan

Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia. It is situated on the Hrazdan River, and is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country....
 participating in the Caucasian Front
Caucasian Front

Caucasian Front may have one of the following meanings*Caucasian Front was the Russian military activities on Caucasus Campaign and Persian Campaign....
.

WWI - Caucasus Campaign

In 1915, Colonel Silikyan commanded a regiment during the Van resistance
Van Resistance

The Resistance at Van was an insurgency against the Ottoman Empire's attempts to eliminate the Ottoman Armenian population population in the Van Province, Ottoman Empire....
.

In 1916, Colonel Silikyan took part in taking of Mush
Mus Province

Mus is a Provinces of Turkey in eastern Turkey. It is 8,196 km? in area, and has a population of 488,997 . The population was 453,654 in 2000. Kurdish people form the majority....
 during the Battle of Mush. Also Bitlis with the Battle of Bitlis
Battle of Bitlis

The Battle of Bitlis refers to a series of engagements in the summer of 1916 for the city of Bitlis and to a lesser extent nearby Moush, between the Russian Imperial forces and their Ottoman counterparts....
. He was also participated the assault on Battle of Erzerum.

After his regiment entered the Erzurum, he was promoted to General. He was rewarded with many orders, including the Order of St. George
Order of St. George

The Military Order of the Saint Grand Martyr and the Triumphant George is an Imperial Russian and current Russian order of chivalry, originally established in 1769 by Catherine the Great, and revived in 1994 by the Russian Federation....
. He become a Major General
Major General

Major General or Major-General is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of Sergeant Major General. A Major General is a high-ranking officer, normally subordinate to the rank of Lieutenant General and senior to the ranks of Brigadier and Brigadier General....
 before Russian Revolution.

Democratic Republic of Armenia

Silikyan left the Russian army after the Russian Revolution of 1917
Russian Revolution of 1917

The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union....
 as the Russian Caucasus Army
Russian Caucasus Army

The Russian Caucasus Army of World War I was the Russian field army that fought at the Caucasian Front . The Army was engaged at Caucasus Campaign and Persian Campaign....
 disintegrated. He became the commander of the 1st Armenian rifle division
Armenian volunteer units

Armenian volunteer units or "Armenian volunteer corps" were Armenian battalions in Russian and British armies during the World War I. The Armenian force during this period also included French Armenian Legion which was established under the French army and Armenian militia which were irregular forces composed from Armenian national move...
 in January 1918. 1918, He was in effective control of the Armenian forces in Yerevan
Yerevan

Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia. It is situated on the Hrazdan River, and is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country....
. With the declaration of the Democratic Republic of Armenia
Democratic Republic of Armenia

The Democratic Republic of Armenia , 1918?1920, was the first modern establishment of an Armenian republic. The collapse of the Imperial Russia with the Russian Revolution of 1917 gave chance to the Armenian Revolutionary Federation to create the new republic which the leadership and the 103 of delegates from former Romanov realm belonged t...
 on April 24 1918, his forces united under Armenian military
Military history of Armenia

The military history of Armenia is defined by the situation of the Armenian Highland between the Hellenistic states, and later the Byzantine Empire, in the west and the Persian Empire to the east....
. Within a short period Silikyan created combat-effective regular units and prepared them for the repulsion of Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
.

The Grand vizier
Grand Vizier

Grand Vizier, in Turkish language Sadr-i Azam or Serdar-i Ekrem , deriving from the Arabic language word wazir 'vizier' , was the greatest minister of the Sultan, with absolute power of attorney and, in principle, dismissable only by the Sultan himself....
 Talat Pasha signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, at Brest-Litovsk between the Russian SFSR and the Central Powers, marking Russia's exit from World War I....
 on March 3 1918 with the Russian SFSR
Russian SFSR

The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , also called the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, the Russian SFSR and the RSFSR for short, was the largest and most populous of the fifteen Republics of the Soviet Union of the Soviet Union and became the Russian Federation after the collapse of the Soviet Union....
 which stipulated that Bolshevik Russia cede Batum, Kars, and Ardahan
Ardahan

Ardahan is a List of cities in Turkey in northeastern Turkey on the Georgia border.....
 to Ottoman Empire. ADR did not accepted the lost of territory, and Treaty of Brest-Litovsk acknowledge the existence of a state of war between Armenia and the Ottoman Empire.

In May 1918, Ottoman Third Army
Third Army (Ottoman Empire)

The Ottoman Third Army was originally established in the Balkans and later defended the northern and eastern parts of the Ottoman Empire. Its initial headquarter was at Salonica....
 began to advance toward Batum, Kars, and Ardahan. Silikyan was in general command of regular troops and militia. In the Battle of Sardarapat
Battle of Sardarapat

The Battle of Sardarabad was a battle of the Caucasus Campaign of World War I that took place near Armavir, Armenia, Armenia from May 24 to May 26, 1918....
 and the Battle of Bash Abaran
Battle of Bash Abaran

The Battle of Bash Abaran was a battle of Caucasus Campaign of World War I that took place in the vicinity of Aparan, in 1918. The Ottoman Empire divisions attacked on May 21, but after three days of fierce combat the Armenians remained firm and the Turkish regiments retreated in defeat....
 the Ottoman Empire were defeated under his command. The Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
n Army included numerous famous and talented militaries of the time - Andranik Ozanyan, Drastamat Kanayan
Drastamat Kanayan

General Drastamat Kanayan , was a politician, revolutionary, general and part of Armenian national liberation movement as a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation....
, Garegin Njdeh
Garegin Njdeh

Garegin Njdeh or Garegin Ter-Harutiunian, Garegin Nzhdeh was an Armenian statesman, fedayee, political thinker, and as a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation party, was involved in revolutionary activities in Armenia, Bulgaria and Russia....
, Christophor Araratov
Christophor Araratov

Christophor Araratov - a famous Major General of First Republic of Armenia and Russian armies, participated in the battles of Battle of Sardarapat and Battle of Karakilisa against Turkish invaders....
, as well as the Future Marshal of the Soviet Union
Marshal of the Soviet Union

Marshal of the Soviet Union was the de facto highest military rank of the Soviet Union. . Stalin, however, refused this honor, and was always depicted wearing Marshal's insignia....
 Hovhannes (Ivan) Baghramian who participated in the Battle of Sardarapat and noted that

In Autumn of 1920 Silikyan commanded Armenian troops against Turkish revolutionaries
Turkish revolutionaries

Turkish revolutionaries were patriots of the Turkish national movement who rebelled against the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire by the Allies of World War I in the aftermath of the Armistice of Mudros which ended the Ottoman Empire's participation in World War I; and against the Treaty of S?vres in 1920, which was signed by the Ottoman go...
 at the Turkish-Armenian War
Turkish-Armenian War

The Turkish-Armenian War was a conflict fought between the Democratic Republic of Armenia and Turkish revolutionaries of the Turkish National Movement which lasted from 24 September to 2 December, 1920 and largely took place in present-day northeastern Turkey and northwestern Armenia....
.

Transcaucasian SFSR

After the Bolshevik takeover of Armenia and establishment of Transcaucasian SFSR
Transcaucasian SFSR

The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic , also known as the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Transcaucasian SFSR and the TSFSR for short, was a short-lived republics of the Soviet Union....
, Silikyan worked in a number of Soviet establishments. He was arrested, imprisoned and finally executed during the purges by Stalin in 1937 on charges of nationalism; and rehabilitated posthumously during the Kruschev era.

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See also

  • Democratic Republic of Armenia
    Democratic Republic of Armenia

    The Democratic Republic of Armenia , 1918?1920, was the first modern establishment of an Armenian republic. The collapse of the Imperial Russia with the Russian Revolution of 1917 gave chance to the Armenian Revolutionary Federation to create the new republic which the leadership and the 103 of delegates from former Romanov realm belonged t...