– Before the Great Patriotic War the population of Armenia was 1mln 320 000. 600 000 of them fought in combat fronts of GPW.
– In GPW years 106 Armenians were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
– 27 soldiers and sergeants are Cavaliers of Glory of three degrees.

In the chronicle of the Great Patriotic War Sevastopol entered as symbol of courage and heroism, and in the battle for its defense Armenian sons also wrote bright pages of feat.
Among warriors of the defense of Sevastopol was Guard Captain, holder of the order “Red Star” Amasia Garnik Melikyan.

My family searched for missing soldier Sevan Toros Alikhanyan for 72 years. His mother Haykanush did not reconcile with the loss of 20-year-old son, though she got his missing document.
My grandfather’s brother’s destiny still haunts me. I was searching for him wilfully and was sure that one day I’ll find him. After all, life is full of surprises!

On April 26 in the conference hall of the administrative complex of the RA MoD a scientific-practical conference was held on the subject of “Destructive cults and street perverse moral as a threat for defenses”. Heads of interested agencies, representatives of RA National Assembly’s permanent commissions, scientific-education sphere and NGO-s, Armenian Apostolic Church were present. Aim of the conference was: to make big efforts to preserve national identification of the young generation, eliminate causes which bring to crime among teenagers.

If you have many weapons, yet that is not the guarantee of effective war conduct. From 180 planes which possesses Azerbaijan, today only 80 are in a valid state, the rest is scrap-metal. The same we can say about tanks. Eventually, loads of weapons does not define force of troops. Azerbaijan is arming because of more of propaganda reasons, to lessen fear of its own people and to threaten us. I’d say one thing precisely and unquestioningly – today our army is ready to defend Homeland’s borders and protect our nation’s security.

Recently on the order of Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan Reserve Major Samvel Artem Abrahamyan was rewarded with departmental medal “Garegin Nzhdeh” for his deed worthy of officer and his honesty.
On March 7th Samvel Abrahamyan near the RA Police building found an official license, permits, bank cards of a police officer and 220 thousand drams. On his personal initiative S.Abrahamyan found out that person’s contact numbers, contacted him and gave him all what he had found.
No doubt, reserve Major S.A.Abrahamyan is worthy of a high appreciation and his deed speaks about exemplary behavior of an Armenian officer and his high human qualities.

Moral-psychological condition of servicemen is very important if you want to have a combat-efficient army. Psychologist of the Tank regiment under the command of Colonel Zhirayr Poghosyan, Lieutenant Marat Hovanisyan is sure – it is essential for the psychologist to be aware of temper, psychological and personal peculiarities and social conditions of servicemen to be able to prevent or eliminate on the spot and on time the possible unwanted, negative events. The psychologist must work with the soldier from the first day of his arrival at the regiment.