Staff of the Yegoryevsk customs post of the Central Excise Customs visited war veteran Arsen Sarkisovich Oganyan, warmly congratulating him and presenting gifts in a year that marks both his centenary and the 80th anniversary of Victory. Source: Central Excise Customs (CAT).
Arsen Sarkisovich was born on 18 March 1925 in the village of Uvarovka, Nizhny Novgorod District, Crimean Region, into a large peasant family. From an early age he helped his parents in the fields and completed eight years of school. In April 1944 he was called up to the Red Army and served as a gunner on an anti-tank gun in the 216th Rifle Regiment of the 589th Division.
He took part in the Crimean offensive, the assault on Sevastopol and fighting in the Baltic states. Near Riga he received two shrapnel wounds and was treated in a hospital in Tambov Region, where he learned of the Soviet people’s victory over Nazi Germany. After treatment he returned to the front and was discharged as a private.
After the war his family was deported from Crimea to Salikam on the Urals, where he worked as an electrician. Following rehabilitation they moved to Krasnodar Territory, where he continued at a plant, first as an electrician and later as a foreman. In 2013 he moved to Yegoryevsk, Moscow Region. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, the Medal for Courage and jubilee medals.