Ghukas Madoyan, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Armenian Red Army lieutenant colonel and Hero of the Soviet Union
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About Ghukas Madoyan
- Ghukas Karapetovich Madoyan (Russian: ????? ??????????? ??????; Armenian: ?????? ???????? ???????; 15 January [O.S.
- 2 January] 1906–11 June 1975) was an Armenian Red Army lieutenant colonel and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Born in Kars Oblast in modern-day Turkey, Madoyan fought in the Russian Civil War with the Red Army and was demobilized afterwards.
- He worked in the public catering and cooperative sectors and briefly rejoined the army as an officer in the early 1930s.
- Madoyan was called up again in 1940 and fought in World War II.
- For leading a battalion in the defense of a key rail junction during the recapture of Rostov-on-Don in early 1943, he was made a Hero of the Soviet Union.
- After graduating from the Frunze Military Academy, Madoyan became a regimental commander and was seriously wounded in Poland in late 1944, resulting in his discharge from the army.
- Postwar, he was active in the Communist Party of Armenia and served as the Minister of Social Welfare of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.
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