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Leonid Azgaldyan, hero of Artsakh, would have turned 77 today.  Azgaldyan was as an Armenian physicist who rose to prominence as a military leader during the Nagorno Karabakh war and is best known as one of the founders and commander of the Artsakh Liberation Army.

On this occasion, an event was organized on Friday at the memorial dedicated to the hero attended by his fellow servicemen, students of Leonid Azgaldyan school, deputy defense minister Gabriel Balayan. At 19:00 a memory event dedicated to the hero is to be held at Moscow Cinema.

Leonid Azgaldyan was born on 22 November 1942 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR in a family of Ruben Azgaldyan, who was originally from Kamo, Armenian SSR. In 1959 Leonid graduated from Askanaz Mravyan school, and in 1960 he was admitted into the Physics Department of Moscow State University. He later transferred and graduated with honors from the same department at Yerevan State University. After graduation, he worked in many spheres of the national economy of USSR, mainly on planning methodology, automation of government systems and scientific research on automation systems.

Leonid Azgaldyan was one of the pioneers of the Karabakh movement and a key military strategist. He was posthumously awarded with the Order of the Combat Cross of the First Degree.

Azgaldyan was awarded with title of Hero of Artsakh on August 31 on the occasion of Artsakh 28th anniversary.