page_title: Garegin Nzhdeh
section_title: Organizational activities
hierarchical_section_title: Garegin Nzhdeh / Organizational activities
caption_attribution_description: English: Garegin Nzhdeh Русский: Гарегин Нжде Հայերեն: Գարեգին Նժդեհը
context_page_description: Garegin Ter-Harutyunyan better known by his nom de guerre Garegin Nzhdeh, was an Armenian statesman and military strategist. As a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, he was involved in national liberation struggle and revolutionary activities during the First Balkan War and World War I. Garegin Nzhdeh was one of the key political and military leaders of the First Republic of Armenia, and is widely admired as a charismatic national hero by Armenians.
  In 1921, he instrumented the establishment of the Republic of Mountainous Armenia, an anti-Bolshevik state that became a key factor that led to the inclusion of the province of Syunik into Soviet Armenia. During World War II, he assisted the Armenian Legion of the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany, he hoped that if Germany succeeded in conquering the USSR, they would be able to grant Armenia independence.
context_section_description: After leaving Syunik, Nzhdeh spent four months in the Persian city of Tabriz. Soon after, he moved to Sofia, Bulgaria where he started a family by marrying Epime, a local Armenian girl and establishing in Bulgaria.
  Nzhdeh was involved in organizational activities in Bulgaria, Romania and the United States through his frequent visits to Plovdiv, Bucharest and Boston.
  In 1933, by the decision of ARF Dashnaktsutyun, Nzhdeh moved to USA along with his partisan, Kopernik Tanterjian. This movement led to the foundation of the Armenian Youth Federation, the youth organization of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, in Boston, Massachusetts.
  He visited several states and provinces in United States and Canada, inspiring the Armenian communities that had established themselves there, and founding an Armenian Youth movement called Tseghakron (Armenian: Ցեղակրոն) (see Tseghakronism), which later renamed itself the "Armenian Youth Federation".
  In 1937, he was back in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, where he began to publish the Razmig Armenian newspaper. At the end of the 1930s, along with a group of Armenian intellectuals in Sofia, he founded the Taron Nationalist Movement and published its organ Taroni Artsiv paper.
  During his life in Bulgaria, Nzhdeh maintained close contacts with revolutionary organizations of Macedonian Bulgarians and Bulgarian Symbolist poet Theodore Trayanov.
caption: Nzhdeh in 1930s
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