The picture was terrible: how the Russians defeated the Turks in Armenia

9 Jul 1915 began Alashkert operation of the Russian troops in Western Armenia. In its initial stage the units of General Peter Hanouskova had to retreat under the onslaught of the Turks. After the arrival of Russian reinforcements counterattacked, won, and created favorable conditions for further, more extensive surgery, Erzurum. According to the memoirs of participants of events on the occupied territories of the Turks massacred the Armenian population.