Hayk Bzhishkyan [SEP] date of death
Hayk Bzhishkyan
Hayk Bzhishkyan (, Persian هایک پزشکیان, Russian: Гайк Бжишкян, also known as Guy Dmitrievich Guy, Gai Dmitrievich Gai (Гай Дмитриевич Гай), Gaya Gai (Гая Гай), or Bzhishkyan, – 11 December 1937), was a Soviet military commander of the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War.
Biography.
Hayk was born in Tabriz, Iran, to a family of teachers; his mother was Persian and his father an Armenian socialist (a member of Social Democrat Hunchakian Party
Order of the Red Banner, two times (1918, 1920)
Bzhishkyan is also an honorary citizen of Minsk.
Commands.
Hayk Bzhishkyan commanded some regiments, divisions and higher military formations:
- July–November 1918: 1st Samara Infantry Division, transformed into 24th Rifle Division that took over Simbirsk (Ulyanovsk) and was later known as "Samara-Ulyanovsk Iron Division".
- January–May, 1919: 1st Army (RSFSR)
- August–September 1919: 42nd Rifle Division