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Ivan Isakov

Ivan Isakov
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Native name Armenian: Հովհաննես Իսակով
Russian: Иван Степанович Исаков
Birth name Hovhannes Ter-Isahakyan
Born (1894-08-22)22 August 1894
Hadjikend, Kars Oblast, Russian Empire
Died 11 October 1967(1967-10-11) (aged 73)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
Allegiance  Soviet Union
Service/branch  Soviet Navy
Years of service 1917–1967
Rank Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union (3 March 1955)
Commands held Chief of the Naval Staff
Baltic Fleet
Battles/wars World War I
Winter War
World War II
Awards
Other work The Atlas of the Sea (1947)

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Ivan Stepanovich Isakov (Armenian: Հովհաննես Իսակով, Russian: Иван Степанович Исаков; (22 August [O.S. 10 August] 1894 – 11 October 1967), born Hovhannes Ter-Isahakyan, was a Soviet Armenian military commander, Chief of Staff of the Soviet Navy, Deputy USSR Navy Minister, and held the rank of Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union. He played a crucial role in shaping the Soviet Navy, particularly the Baltic and Black Sea flotillas during the Second World War. Aside from his military career, Isakov became a member and writer of the oceanographic committee of the Soviet Union Academy of Sciences in 1958 and in 1967, became an honorary member of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic's Academy of Sciences.

Ivan Isakov was born Hovhannes Ter-Isahakyan in the family of an Armenian railway worker in the village of Hadjikend in the Kars Oblast, then a part of the Russian Empire (currently the Kars vilayet of Turkey). His father died soon after he was born. Afterward his mother raised their three children with her brother. His uncle had dreamed of service in the Navy and had a library of marine literature, which inspired an identical love of watercraft for Isakov. The family later moved to Tiflis, where he studied mathematics and engineering at the local realschule, which Isakov graduated from in 1913.

In 1917, Isakov moved to Petrograd, Russia, and entered the Naval Guards School of the Imperial Russian Navy and graduated as a midshipman in March of that year and briefly saw action against the Germans in West Estonian archipelago (Moonsund archipelago). He continued his service after the Russian Revolution in the Baltic Sea fleet as a torpedo officer where he served on several warships including the Izyaslav, the Riga, the Kobchik and the Korshun. In 1918, he took part in several battles against the German Imperial Navy until the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which effectively ended the war between Russia and Germany, granting the Baltic Sea to the latter. In March 1918, Isakov participated in the Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet from the naval base at Helsingfors where Russian warships and icebreakers were transferred from the Baltic to the naval base in Kronshtadt near Petrograd. An authoritative Russian Navy source notes that Isakov completed additional courses in mine-sweeping and mine-laying in 1919 and then served in the Caspian Sea, returning to the Baltic in 1920, and subsequently serving in the Black Sea through the mid-1920s.


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