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Shavarsh Karapetyan
Armenian finswimmer (born )
Shavarsh Vladimiri (Vladimirovich)[1] Karapetyan (Armenian: Շավարշ Կարապետյան; born May 19, ) is a retired former Sovietfinswimmer, best known for saving the lives of 20 people in a incident in Yerevan.[2]
Biography
Karapetyan was born on May 19, , in Armenia's third largest city of Kirovakan (now called Vanadzor again), then part of the Soviet Union.
His family moved to Yerevan in , where Shavarsh finished eight years of school and then attended a technical school for auto-mechanics. On the advice of family friends, he started to learn swimming at a young age. He later switched to finswimming.
Shavarsh karapetyan biography definition
In –, Karapetyan served in a Soviet Air Defence Forces base in the Baku military district.[3]
bus incident
In Shavarsh was riding a bus when the driver pulled over to check on a mechanical problem.
The engine was left running and the bus suddenly started rolling down towards a mountain gorge. Karapety