Levon Gevorgyan after the 44-day war


Lt. Col. Levon Gevorgyan, who was wounded in the 44-day war in Karvachar, started walking after a long and painstaking fight by doctors. At the very beginning, doctors even discussed the issue of amputating both of his legs. Now Levon has fully returned to life. He has been in the Armenian army since he was 17 years old. He retired after the Four Day War. From the first days of the 44-day war, he went to Karvachar with the Ashtarak combat squad, where he knew every bush and tree in detail. During that time, the combat squad had 3 casualties and 4 wounded, Levon was the fifth.

Mher Lalazaryan after the 44-day war


Mher Lalazaryan, injured in the 44-day war, learned programming during treatment and received a grant, with which he is going to open a computer store in Vanadzor. Before the 44-day war, he participated in the Four-Day War and the June battles. The army officer considers that participating in the war is a conscious choice in his case.

Tigran Izryan after the 44-day war


Tigran Izryan, a participant in the 44-day war, graduated from YSU's Faculty of Geography. Tigran's life changed upside down after he was wounded in the jaw area in the war and lost his comrades in arms. For Yezidi Tigran, Armenia is his homeland and he considers it his duty to live and build his home and Armenia. The war changed a lot in his life, and according to him, filled it with even more optimism and perseverance.
 

Karo Hambardzumyan after the 44-day war


There are no insurmountable difficulties
 
If there was no war, the life of mechanizer Karo Hambardzumyan would have taken a completely different course. He spent most of the year in Russia working abroad. He returned to Armenia for the four-day, then 44-day war and went to Artsakh with the Tigran Mets detachment. On October 3, Karo Hambardzumyan was injured in Madaghis. He is now preparing for a complex operation and hopes that his leg will be restored as a result. Karo Hambardzumyan believes that there are no insurmountable difficulties in life and in general, there is no life without difficulties.

Gagik Mirzoyan after the 44-day war


God-given life cannot be wasted
 
Injured in the 44-day war, Gagik Mirzoyan remembers in detail the events that took place on the battlefield from September 27, 2020 to the day he was injured. The main lesson learned from the war is not to waste the life given by God, and to live with dedication and love. After living in silence and self-restraint for a long time, he realized that he stayed alive because he had important things to do.

Harutyun Mkrtchyan after the 44-day war


A wartime contract soldier has a mission
 
Harutyun Mkrtchyan, a resident of Meghrashat village in Shirak region, lost his leg, his health and his childhood friend during the 44-day war. Harutyun undergoes one operation after another, but he hopes that everything will be fine, that God will protect him, because he still has work to do.

Artyom Sarukhanyan after the 44-day war


A seriously wounded man of war makes everyone live
 
After being seriously injured during the 44-day war, Artyom Sarukhanyan underwent 17 operations. After being wounded, he was transferred from Martakert hospital to Goris, and then to Yerevan. All that time, Artyom thought that he had lost his leg and that the doctors might not be able to restore it. In Goris, he was informed that the first operation was successful, but would his leg be restored?

Erik Mkrtchyan after the 44-day war


The ill-fated ATS strike in Jarakan changed the life of Erik Mkrtchyan. He and his family moved from Vanadzor to Yerevan so that he could receive long-term treatment first in the hospital and then in the "Soldier's House". Eric now considers that after being injured, he appreciates life, his relatives and the world around him. He believes that difficulties have made him stronger.

Aram Terzyan after the 44-day war


The prayer book saved the lives of father and son Terzyans during the 44-day war, Aram Terzyan's life was saved by the pocket prayer book and cross. The enemy's bullet hit the prayer book of the pocket-pock, which protected Aram like a bulletproof vest. The same prayer book also protected Aram's father during the first Artsakh war. After being treated in the "Soldier's House", Aram donated the prayer book to the chapel opened in the rehabilitation center. Now Aram is the coordinator of "Soldier's house" in Shirak region.

Edmond Hovakimyan after the 44-day war


He had been demobilized months earlier when the 44-day war began. He went to Artsakh as a volunteer with his friends. On October 11, he lost his left arm in a drone strike in Jabrail. He was engaged in music for nine years. Clarinet, shwi, duduk, pku; these were not just musical instruments for Edmond, but, as he says, the greatest loves of his life. The hardest part has been adjusting to the thought of not playing forever. Today, Edmond is a famous showman. It has its own myth-he believes that the day will come when he will have a hand again. "When you see the kind of scientific and technological growth our planet records every day, you believe that after ten to fifteen or maybe twenty years it will be possible to get a hand again through surgery," he says.

Shahen Babayan after the 44-day war


We met the athlete Shahen Babayan during the days of the "Republican Sports Games of Disabled Sports 2023" in Tsaghkadzor.
On October 28, 2020 Shahen's life was barely saved from the injury he received from an anti-aircraft missile strike. Lost both legs. There was disappointment and despair, of course, but the urge to return to a full life was greater. Having prosthetics, today it is rare to sit in a wheelchair. He says that guys like me should stand firmly on the ground, give each other strength, so that the spirit of the defeated and broken will come out of all of us.

Rafael Mkrtchyan after the 44-day war


Rafael considers October 10, 2020 to be his second birthday, his spinal cord was damaged by a gunshot in Jrakan. Today the young man is in a wheelchair. After the injury, fellow citizens collected money and built an elevator in the apartment building where Rafael lives. He is currently building a guest house for people with disabilities. We spent a day with his family in Dilijan, where Rafael Mkrtchyan was born and lives.