Norat Ter-Grigoryants

Who is Norat Ter-Grigoryants?

Norat Grigoryevich Ter-Grigoryants is a retired Soviet and Armenian lieutenant-general who played a leading role in developing the Armed Forces of Armenia during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in 1992-1995.

An ethnic Armenian from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic who served as chief of staff for the Soviet 40th Army in Afghanistan and deputy chief of the Soviet Ground Forces' main staff before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ter-Grigoryants took up the Armenian government's invitation to take command of the Armenian Army in 1992. Ter-Grigoryants became the head of the general staff and the Armenian government's first deputy minister of defense in 1992-1995. He briefly served named Acting Minister of Defense in 1993.

He returned to the Russian Federation since his retirement in 1995 and is a member of the board of the Union of Armenians of Russia.