Hayk Ovsepyan
Hayk Alexandri Hovsepyan or Gayk Alexandrovich Osepyan (Ovsepyan) (Armenian: Հայկ Ալեքսանդրի Հովսեփյան; Russian: Гайк Александрович Осепян (Овсепян); 19 January or 19 June 1891 - 10 September 1937) was a Soviet military leader and politician of Armenian origin. He was also a deputy chief of the General Political Department of the Red Army. He was executed in 1937 during the Great Purge.
Hayk Ovsepyan | |
|---|---|
| First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia | |
| In office 6 July 1927 – 8 April 1928 | |
| Preceded by | Ashot Hovhannisyan |
| Succeeded by | Haykaz Kostanyan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 January 1891 Bashkadyklar, Kars Oblast, Russian Empire |
| Died | 10 September 1937 (aged 46) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Political party | RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1913–1918) CPSU (1918–1937) |
| Awards | Order of the Red Banner |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Russian Empire (1914–1917) Soviet Russia (1917–1922) Soviet Union (1922–1937) |
| Years of service | 1914 — 1937 |
| Rank | Army Commissar 2nd rank |
| Battles/wars | First World War Russian Civil War |
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