Gaspar Voskanyan (January 22, 1887 – September 20, 1937) was an ethnic Armenian Soviet komkor (corps commander). He was born in what is now Grigoriopol District 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.
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22 January 1887 Grigoriopol, Ținutul Tiraspol, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
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Died |
20 September 1937 (aged 50) Moscow, Soviet Union
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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