Ivan Isakov

Ivan Isakov
Native name	Armenian: Հովհաննես Իսակով Russian: Иван Степанович Исаков
Birth name	Hovhannes Ter-Isahakyan (Johannes 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	Novodevichy Cemetery
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Service/branch	Soviet Navy
Years of service	1917–1967
Rank	Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union
Commands held	Chief of the Naval Staff Baltic Fleet Naval Academy
Battles/wars	World War I Winter War World War II
Awards	Hero of the Soviet Union see below
Other work	The Atlas of the Sea (1947)

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.^[1]