Garegin Njdeh facts for kids

Garegin Njdeh (Armenian: Գարեգին Նժդեհ, real name: Garegin Ter-Harutiunian, 1 January 1886 - late 1955) was an Armenian statesman, military, and political thinker. He was a native of Nakhchivan.

Death

Njdeh fled Armenia after the triumph of Bolsheviks, and was involved in patriotic activities in Iran, Bulgaria and the United States. A controversial person, he was expelled from Dashnak party. Njdeh was very much against communism. He worked with Nazi Germans during the World War II. He was arrested in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1944 and sent to Moscow, then to Yerevan. He spent the rest of his life in prison in the Russian city of Vladimir, where he died in 1955.

Nzhdeh as a Bulgarian Army officer in the Balkan Wars
Garegin Nzhdeh during the Balkan Wars, 1912–1913.
General Garegin Nzhdeh and Colonel Ruben Narinian in autumn 1920
Nzhdeh in Goris, Republic of Mountainous Armenia (1921)
Nzhdeh in the 1930s
Nzhdeh at the founding of the Armenian Youth Federation in Boston in 1933
House of Nzhdeh in Sofia
Commemorative plaque on the house of Nzhdeh in Sofia, where he was arrested in 1944
Nzhdeh's tombstone at the Spitakavor Monastery
Garegin Nzhdeh's memorial in Kapan opened in 2003
The monumental statue of Nzhdeh in Yerevan, erected in May 2016