Ivan Isakov

Ivan Isakov

Hovhannes Stepani Isakov (Armenian: Հովհաննես Ստեփանի Իսակով, Russian: Иван Степанович Исаков, Ivan Stepanovich Isakov; (22 August 1894 – October 11, 1967), an ethnic Armenian, was a Soviet 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 that of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic's Academy of Sciences.

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