People from Kars - Ivan Isakov, G Ls M Tatar, Cihangirzade Ibrahim Bey, Peker a ?Kal?n, Turgut Polat, Tu?ba Ekinci, Hayran?dil Kad?nefendi (Paperback)

Chapters: Ivan Isakov, G ls m Tatar, Cihangirzade Ibrahim Bey, Peker A ?kal?n, Turgut Polat, Tu?ba Ekinci, Hayran?dil Kad?nefendi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hovhannes Stepani Isakov (Armenian:, Russian:, Ivan Stepanovich Isakov; (22 August 1894 October 11, 1967) was a Soviet Armenian military commander, chief of staff and Admiral of the Fleet in the Soviet Navy. He played a crucial role in shaping the Soviet navy, particularly the Baltic and Black Sea flotillas during the Second World War. Asides 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. 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 family moved to Tiflis, where he attended and graduated from the local realschule in 1913. In 1917, Isakov moved to Petrograd, Russia, and entered the Naval Guards School of the Imperial Russian Navy and graduated as a warrant officer in March of that year and briefly saw action against the Germans in Moonsund. 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 Bal...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=5784094