Birth name Ashot Hmayaki Ghulyan Rank military leader Nickname(s) Bekor (Shard) | Allegiance Armenian Name Bekor Ashot Years of service 1991-1992 | |
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Died August 24, 1992, Kican, Azerbaijan Similar People Arkady Ter‑Tadevosyan, Samvel Babayan, Monte Melkonian, Vazgen Sargsyan, Shamil Basayev | ||
Battles/wars Nagorno-Karabakh War Battles and wars Nagorno-Karabakh War | ||
Ներսիկ Իսպիրյան - ԲԵԿՈՐ ԱՇՈՏԻՆ
Ashot Ghulyan (Armenian: Բեկոր Աշոտ; 6 October 1959 – 24 August 1992), also known as Bekor (Shard), was an Armenian military leader during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. He was awarded the Hero of Artsakh honorary title.
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Biography
Being a worker from Stepanakert, he dedicated himself to the movement for self-determination of Nagorno-Karabakh since the late 1980s. He was an underground activist and partisan leader of self-defense movement. In 1991 Bekor was wounded in Hadrut region, then participated during the captures of Khojaly and Shusha.
Bekor fought in a number of battles in Askeran, Hadrut, Shahumyan, Karkijahan, Verin Shen, Dashalty, Lachin and several others.
He was first to enter Shusha in 1992 after its capture. His friend, Armen Danielyan, said that as a commander Bekor was very attentive to the needs of all the men. A school in the Republic of Artsakh is named after him.