"Fact" daily writes:
"Maxim was very lively, sociable. As my parents say, he was a naughty child with taste. He was inquisitive, he constantly asked questions about everything, he was interested in everything, and he had to get the answers to his questions without fail," says Anush, Maxim's sister, in an interview with "Pasti".
When talking about his school years, he says that his brother was an excellent student.
"He participated in almost all the Olympiads. Loved science subjects, but equally studied everything.
As a child, he watched science programs in Russian on TV.
My mother tells me: one day I was passing by, I started asking questions to understand if he was just looking or if he understood.
Max answers all questions, tells about the program. It had a wonderful logic. Some time after the war, one of our friends from the service told us that we had a book, but we couldn't find a solution to the problem, so we decided to wait for Max to step down and ask him.
He came and answered our question. It doesn't matter if it was Armenian history or mathematics, we would ask him the question, he would answer it."
After graduating from school, Maxim was admitted to YSU "Informatics and Applied Mathematics" faculty. He managed to be a student for one semester and on January 30, 2019 he was conscripted for compulsory military service in Artsakh.
Served in the anti-tank platoon of the 3rd battalion of the 1st defense of Hadrut as a bassoon jockey operator. When I ask what Maxim's feelings were like before leaving for the service, the sister recalls 2016. the war
At that time, the brother was in school, he and his friends were excited, they wanted to go to war. Andranik Zohrabyan, one of the victims of the April War, is from Vedi, Maxim's birthplace.
"One day he told his mother. "Mom, can you imagine how Andranik's papa feels when he takes his son's body armor, which is completely damaged by bullets?"
Max was looking forward to going on duty. A part of his chest was a bit high. One of the medical commissions had a holter attached to carry out checks.
He came home that day and kept himself very calm. The next day it was gone, the device was removed. Then he called his father's uncle from the army and said, "Did you see how I cheated on that device?" He never thought about not serving, there is a video where he says: we should do it so that our parents don't hang their heads."
Anush says that when her brother "chose" Artsakh during the lottery, he spoke the name of his choice with great pride. "My father remembers those days so clearly, he told him: Dad, I will serve in Karabakh, his enthusiasm knew no bounds." Maxim's service days were wonderful.
Anush recalls that during one of the conversations, when her grandmother said, "Dear Max, it's good, the quality of food is changing in the army," she responded. "Grandma, there are more important things, filling your belly is not important."
On September 27, the war began. "Before the war, in August, our uncle died. It was the period of the pandemic, Max could not come on vacation, and we tried to tell him the news as late as possible. In the end, we said, he was very upset, he was broken.
The day after announcing the news, he called: gather all the members of the house, I have to say something. He gave us strength, told us that we should be together and become a wing and back for Artyom, my cousin. At around one o'clock on the night of September 26, he called and asked everyone to wake up.
He said: go to the hopar, light incense, God willing, we will meet. He talked to all of us that night, including Artyom. He still doesn't tell us what exactly he said to him, but it can be assumed that he prepared something, told him to be by our side.
My dad used to say, something's wrong, something's going on, Max wouldn't talk to all of us like that.
The next call came in the evening of September 27. Every time he said that everything will be fine, cheered us up. Only once, on October 1st, was he very broken when he called. Artsakh hero Davit Ghazaryan was killed. David was the commander of his training battalion. He told Papa.
"Davo is a hero, he gave a boy, I will do the same, dog Turk will not see my back." Like many families, Maxim's family also began to live from one son's call to another. "The moment has come to leave Hadrut. Our aunt's son is an officer, during the war he studied at the Academy in Moscow, he came to go to war.
Max said, it's not good that you came, but you'll be careful, my brother. They talked, but not with direct questions. Our aunt's son had realized that Max and his friends were under siege."
According to the family, the son and his friends were surrounded for days, no weapons reached them, and they had to retreat. "They fought for 32 days in the hot battles of Hadrut, on the night of October 28, after walking for 9 hours, they were forced to leave the positions of Hadrut and move to Martunu region.
He told his father that we didn't leave a single bullet, we brought everything with us. They changed there, got new uniforms. According to our information, some of the boys from Hadrut were taken to Askera, some were ordered to rise to the position of Chartar. Then they told us that they were told, guys, don't go, whoever goes, doesn't come back.
But the boys objected: if we don't go, the tanks will enter the city on asphalt." Max, Georges, Arsene, Lyova and 2 volunteers are killed on November 2 by an aerial bomb attack on the height of Chartar. "We were told that the sprinkler worked for a whole day, the soldiers could not climb up to that part and bring the boys down."
Max's last conversation with his family was the day before he died. "On the morning of November 1, he called for the last time, spoke, as always, putting all of us under his belt.
His last words were: "There is nothing left, 90 days, whatever it is, I will come home. Well, be good, we'll talk." The same evening, he spoke to his injured friend: "Go home, I will call you." We have not had contact with him for several days since November 2.
We always waited for his call, we never called first. When we didn't hear from him, we started calling all the phone numbers he called us.
But no one could be contacted. It turns out that there is a person from Vedi there, and the news of Max's death reaches Vedi, only we didn't know. My aunt's son also receives news that something similar happened in the direction of Chartar. He starts looking for her in Artsakh, in every possible place. Finally, they get news that he is in Martuni.
There was a man who "brought" the boys, he is my father's friend. He is the one who knows Max. They brought him on the night of November 4, we learned the news on the morning of the 5th."
Anushik says that the father tried in every way to restore his son's fighting path, but his officers were killed and he could not do anything.
However, during this time, they tried to find the boys who served with him, who went through the war, and asked them to tell about Max, isn't it, especially now that every memory is more valuable.
About the power to live. "We learn to live with pain because we have no other option.
Waiting gave strength, dad saw Max, we didn't, and that waiting kept me alive, especially my mom. Every time the door opened, she seemed to be waiting for Max. And I...
I try to live in such a way that I deserve him to be proud of me. There is no life ahead. A lot of our goals were related to him: Max comes, let's do this, Max comes, let's do the other thing.
But everything crumbled, broke, and now we are trying in every way to be worthy of him, to keep his name and honor high." H. G. - Maxim Hovhannisyan was posthumously awarded the "Combat Service" medal. Buried in his native Vedic pantheon.
Lusine Arakelyan
