Garegin Khachatryan
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Garegin Khachatryan was an Armenian
Armenians
Armenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....

 sculptor, artist, and freedom fighter.

Biography

Garegin Khachatryan was born in Yerevan
Yerevan
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, 17 September 1975.
Son of Rafik Khachatryan
Rafik Khachatryan
Rafik Khachatryan was an Armenian sculptor.File:Banakum carayelis.jpg|thumb|right|...

 - Khachar Afo - who was a sculptor of the Union of the Artists of the USSR and Armenia
Armenia
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 and a young (13 years old) and brave participant of the National Liberation movement of Armenians: he was a Soldier of Armenian National Liberation Legion, from 1988, aged thirteen, to 1994 when he was 19 years old. He was a "spetsnaz" and paratrooper in a volunteer battalion "Artsiv 4" (Eagle 4). His Father - Rafik Khachatryan
Rafik Khachatryan
Rafik Khachatryan was an Armenian sculptor.File:Banakum carayelis.jpg|thumb|right|...

 was in the Headquarters of the Independence
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 Army
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 of Armenia.
Garegin Khachatryan graduate of an Armenian High school, as well as of Art College in Yerevan.
He was a volunteer in the self defense forces and had a good training in volunteer troops as a special force and paratrooper.
He was a brave defender of the borders of the Republic of Armenia and a volunteer participant of self-defense operations in the border areas of Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh.

He was awarded with the "Medal for Bravery" of the Republic of Armenia.

Freedom fighter and composer Davit Amalyan (David Amalian) in late September 1995 dedicated a great song to Garegin Khachatryan
Garegin Khachatryan
Garegin Khachatryan was an Armenian sculptor, artist, and freedom fighter.-Biography:Garegin Khachatryan was born in Yerevan, 17 September 1975....

. http://k4500.com/music/443-mktrich-mkrtchyan.html
http://static.video.yandex.ru/lite-audio/gurgen99/7d9x7i1vq6.1114/

He was a direct descendant of the house of Daniel-Bek of Sassun
Daniel-Bek of Sassun
Daniel-Bek of Sassun was an Armenian Bek in Sassun in the second half of the 18th century. His grandson was Khachatur-Bek of Mush , who lived in the first half of the 19th century...

 (province
Province
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 Sassun or Sason
Sason
Sason is a district in the Batman Province of Turkey. It was formerly part of the sanjak of Siirt, which was in Diyarbakır vilayet until 1880 and in Bitlis vilayet in 1892. Later it became part of Muş sanjak in Bitlis vilayet, and remained part of Muş until 1927...

 of Western Armenia
Western Armenia
Western Armenia is a term, primarily used by Armenians, to refer to Armenian-inhabited areas of the Armenian Highland that were part of the Ottoman Empire and now are part of the Republic of Turkey....

) (second half of the 18th century) and Khachatur-Bek of Mush
Khachatur-Bek of Mush
Khachatur-Bek of Mush was an Armenian Bek in the first half of the 19th century. He was from the town Mush of Western Armenia. His family house was in the Surb Marineh Church's quarter in Mush. His grandfather was Daniel-Bek of Sassun, an Armenian Bek from Sassun in the second half of the 18th...

 (town Mush
Mus Province
Muş Province is a province in eastern Turkey. It is 8,196 km² in area, and has a population of 406,886 . The population was 453,654 in 2000. The provincial capital is the city of Muş...

of Western Armenia) (first half of the 19th century).

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