- Service emblem · official · carried by Armenian Armed Forces
- State affiliation · Armenia
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
Service emblem: Emblem of the Armed Forces of Armenia — carried by Armenian Armed Forces, not issued to this record. The emblem of the Armed Forces of Armenia — a shield bearing the eagle-and-lion arms over crossed elements, with the service's name in Armenian. A SERVICE-EMBLEM, NOT A FLAG, and the kind field says so: no flag file of the Armed Forces was located, and an emblem is what the institution publishes. This candidate was CLEARED ON LICENCE in the earlier manifest and not fetched; it is now fetched, checked and shipped. Public domain on Commons, no attribution obligation. LEGIBILITY, STATED: a badge on a transparent ground has no field colour, so at 18x12px it reads as a pale form rather than as itself. It carries real identity at 38x26 and 40x40, which is where the Atlas shows a mark on a card and a masthead, and that is the basis on which it was kept. FILE: Wikimedia Commons "Emblem of the Armed Forces of Armenia.svg", public domain, vectorised by Arman Militosyan. 111KB optimised to 65KB — editor metadata removed, coordinate precision reduced to two decimals on a 24,529-unit canvas. Geometry, colours and viewBox unaltered. Inherited by the five army corps, the ground forces, the air force and air defence, and the peacekeeping brigade; the Border Guard is a separate root under a different ministry and correctly inherits nothing.
State affiliation: Armenia.
The smaller square mark is a Vigil category device, drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role — not an official insignia.
In brief
The eastern corps, holding the Gegharkunik sector around Lake Sevan and the frontier with the Kalbajar district — the sector where Azerbaijani positions advanced onto Armenian-claimed ground in 2021 and 2022, and the one the 2024 delimitation work in Tavush did not reach.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination reported
- Sources
- 3 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- The eastern frontier around Lake Sevan and the Vardenis range, facing Kalbajar
- Notable history
- The 2nd Corps holds the frontier that became a front only in 2020: the Gegharkunik sector, where the Kalbajar district's return to Azerbaijani control brought Azerbaijani forces to a border that had not been an international one in practice for thirty years. The incursions of May 2021 and September 2022 — the largest fighting on Armenia's own territory since independence — fell partly in its area. Compiled references describe it as a corps of independent regiments and battalions; that composition is the one the transformation concept is replacing and is not adopted here.
- Strengths
- High ground on the Armenian side of a range that the 2020 outcome made the border.
- Limitations
- A frontier that had no fortification before 2020 and an undelimited line on which the 2022 fighting showed the sector's exposure. No strength, holdings, positions or readiness are published.
Assessed as of — 2026-06 Last reviewed — 2026-09-09
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