Kristapor Ivanyan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kristapor Ivanyan

Armenian general

Date of Birth: 20-Dec-1920

Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia

Date of Death: 30-Aug-1999

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: Armenia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Kristapor Ivanyan (Armenian: ????????? ????????; 20 December 1920 – 30 August 1999) was a Soviet and Armenian lieutenant general.
He fought in both World War II and the Nagorno-Karabakh War, both taking place a span of fifty years apart, and is one of the founders of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army. A military school in Stepanakert is named after Ivanyan.
In 2001, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic renamed the town of Khojaly to Ivanyan in his honor, and a statue of Ivanyan was unveiled in Stepanakert on the tenth anniversary of the proclamation of Nagorno-Karabakh’s independence.