Anatoly Vladimirovich Zinevich (born 1932, Khmelnytskyi

Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine

Khmelnytskyi is a city in Ukraine in the region of Podillia. It is located on the Southern Buh River and about from the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. The town's original name was Płoskirów, later Proskurov, but in 1954 was renamed Khmelnytskyi. It is the center of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western...

, Ukrainian SSR

Ukrainian SSR

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 - August 1, 2000, Yerevan

Yerevan

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) was a General-Lieutenant of Ukrainian origin, for whom "Armenia became the second homeland", one of the commanders of Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army

Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army

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In 1953 he entered Proskurov tank school, then he finished the Frunze Military Academy and the highest academical courses for the USSR leadership. He had served in Afghanistan

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, Somalia

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 and Ethiopia

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. In 1992-97 he occupied different positions at the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army

Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army

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, was the First deputy commander of Army. Since 1997 Anatoly Zinevich had been the deputy Minister of Defence of Armenia.