Sebouh Nersesian

Arshag Nersesian (; 1872–1940), better known by his nom de guerre Sebouh or General Sebouh , was an Armenian military commander. He was the right-hand man of General Andranik Ozanian.

Early life He was born in 1872 in Tomna (a village north of Bayburt, which is in modern-day Turkey) as Arshag Nersesian. He later took the pseudonym Sebouh. He became involved in Armenian revolutionary activities while as a youth. He received his education in Trebizond (prior to World War I, that Armenian community numbered 30,000) and showed early aptitude as a craftsman. When he was twenty-years-old and working as a shoemaker in a village near Erzincan, his village was slaughtered by Turkish soldiers during the Hamidian massacres, however, he survived and swore to "kill every Turk he set his eyes on".

Revolutionary activities In 1889, he left for Constantinople. In 1894, General Sebouh left the Social Democratic Hunchakian Party and joined the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF-Dashnaktsutyun). He died on July 31, 1940, at age 66. Sebouh's sons joined Garegin Nzhdeh's Tseghakrons (precursor to the Armenian Youth Federation).

On November 20, 2014, the remains of General Sebouh were interred in Yerevan's military cemetery at Yerablur. General Sebouh's memorial at Yerevan's military cemetery at Yerablur.