Gaspar Voskanyan

Gaspar Karapetovich Voskanyan (Arabic: Գասպար Կարապետի Ոսկանյան; Russian: Гаспар Карапетович Восканов, romanized: Gaspar Karapetovich Voskanov January 22, 1887 – September 20, 1937) was a Soviet komkor (corps commander).

An ethnic Armenian, he was born in Grigoriopol, in the Russian Empire (now in Transnistria, Moldova).

He fought in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks during the subsequent civil war.

During the Great Purge, he was arrested on May 28, 1937, and later executed.

Russian Empire: Soviet Union: Order of the Red Banner