Performance reproducing one of the battles by the 89th Tamanyan Division played in Yerevan
“Union of Young University Students” NGO staged today a performance, reproducing one of the battles by the 89th Tamanyan Division. The event supported by Armenia’s defense ministry, Union of Armenian Veterans and Armenian National Cinema Center was dedicated to the 73rd anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War. The performance was played in the park near Mother Armenia statue.
The spectacle was attended by veterans of Artsakh Liberation and Great Patriotic Wars, state and public figures.
To note, the 89th Tamanyan Division or as it is often called the 89th Infantry Rifle Division was a distinguished division in the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War. The division was primarily remembered for its second formation, composed primarily of ethnic Armenians and fought in numerous battles during the war.
The division was established at Kursk prior to June 1941. On 22 June 1941 it was part of 33rd Rifle Corps in the interior Orel Military District. Fighting as part of the 19th Army. The division was re-formed in December 1941 in the capital of the Armenian SSR, Yerevan, following the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
In August 1942, the 89th Division was dispatched toward the North Caucasus Front, where it took up defensive positions to block the German drive toward Grozny. From November to December 1942, the unit took part in several fierce battles in the area around the cities of Elekhotvo, Malgobek, and Voznesenskaya and helped bring the German penetration into the Caucasus to a halt.
Later, the 89th Division participated in the Kerch–Eltigen Operation, involving the landing of amphibious troops onto the Kerch Peninsula.
In May 1944, the Soviet army began its offensive to retake Sevastopol. The 89th Division was given the objective of capturing the Gornaya Height, which would then open the way to Sevastopol. This was accomplished, and the unit subsequently took part in Sevastopol's and the promontory of Kherson's recapture. For the liberation of the Sevastopol the division was bestowed with the Order of the Red Banner. Senior Lieutenants Simeon K. Baghdasaryan and Khoren A. Khachaturyan, and Senior Sergeants Aydin Gh. Harutyunyan, Harutyun R. Mkrtchyan and Vardges A. Rostomyan were awarded with the Order of the Hero of Soviet Union.
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