Arkadi Ter-Tadevosyan (Komandos) is a Major-General, hero of the Artsakh liberation war and former Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia.

Ter-Tadevosyan is one of the officers of the USSR who led the struggle of Armenian detachments from the outset of the Artsakh war. His most brilliant victory during the liberation war was the liberation of Shushi, which had a great strategic and psychological impact on the future of the war.

Arkadi Ter-Tadevosyan was born on May 22, 1939 in Tbilisi. He graduated from a military school in Baku and moved to Leningrad to study at the Military Academy of Transport and Support. He has served in Afghanistan, Germany, Czechoslovakia and Belarus. Since 1987, he has served in Armenia.

In 1988, he joined the struggle for the liberation of Karabakh and actively participated in training the voluntary soldiers. In 1990, he became a member of the “Sasuntsi David” voluntary detachment. In 1991, he was appointed Head of the Department for Extra-Military Training of the Defense Committee of the Republic of Armenia. On 30 October 1991, the newly created self-defense forces of Artsakh liberated the highly important Togh village from the enemy thanks to the brilliant operation under the command of Arkadi Ter-Tadevosyan.

In May 1992, he planned and brilliantly carried out the liberation of the city of Shushi (“Wedding in the Mountains” Operation), which was considered one of the most impregnable peaks under the control of Azerbaijani military units and from where Stepanakert was bombed for months.

Arkadi Ter-Tadevosyan has been awarded the Order of the First Degree Battle Cross of the Republic of Armenia. Thanks to his military service and great human attributes, Arkadi Ter-Tadevosyan is considered one of the most valuable military figures in post-Soviet Armenia.