Ivan Isakov Biography

Born on August 10 on August 22 in Adzhikend of the Elizabethpol province - died on October 11 in Moscow. Soviet naval figure. Admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union of the year. Hero of the Soviet Union Laureate of the Stalin Prize Ivan Isakov was born 10 22 according to the new style of Augustus in Adzhikend of the Elizabethpol province 25 km from the Knolovaya railway station of the Ganja.

Father - Stepan Egorovich Isaacan, who Russified his surname for Isakov, was a road technician. Uncle - Peter Lauer, engineer -technologist. By nationality - Armenian. Father died early. The upbringing of three children was engaged in the mother and her brother Peter Lauer, who dreamed of serving in the fleet. Obviously, these dreams of Uncle were transmitted to Ivan. In childhood, the sea and theater fell in love.

I read a lot. Vanik, as his name was in the family, had a large collection of books, in T. He painted well, wrote poetry. In the year he graduated from a real school in Tiflis. Then he entered the St. Petersburg Practical Technological Institute, but graduated only to the first year. After the outbreak of World War I, on September 15, he entered the Russian Imperial Fleet.

He graduated from individual Mardmarin classes in March, received the title of midshipman. Since May, he served in the Baltic fleet as an auditor on the destroyer Izyaslav. He participated in the battle of Moonsund. In January, he was appointed senior assistant to the commander of this destroyer, participated in the ice campaign of the Baltic Fleet - operations to save the Baltic Fleet ships from the capture of the German and Finnish troops and transfer them from Helsingfors to Kronstadt.

As a result of the operation, ships and ships were saved and relocated, including 6 battleships, 5 cruisers, 59 destroyers, 12 submarines. From August to December, he was an assistant to Transbalt transport commander. In July, he graduated from the courses of trading and fence commanders. Since July - commander of the Kobchik patrol ship in the Baltic.

In February, he was transferred to the Volga-Caspian military flotilla, where he was appointed flag specialist on river trawling. At the same time, in March-June, he temporarily commanded the destroyer “active”. The flotilla participated in the Anzelian operation. Since July, he again served in the Baltic Fleet: the commander of the minesweeper “Anchor”, since August - the senior assistant to the commander of the winner, since December - the senior assistant commander and the commander of the destroyer Izyaslav.

Since January, the head of the Southern Black Sea Office of the Observation and Communications Service of the MSCHM, since April - the senior naval head of the Batuma Maritime base, since August - the head of the operational department of the observation and communications service of the MSCHM, from October - assistant to the headquarters of the MSCHM headquarters, since August - the commander of the destroyer "Ivan Vygovsky" was renamed "Petrovsky" in February, in February, in February, in February, in February.

Since October - Assistant Chief of Staff of the Coastal Defense of the MSM for the operational unit, since April - assistant chief and chief from September of the operational department of the headquarters of the EMERCOM. In May-June, he fulfilled the sea campaign to Turkey, being the acting headquarters of a separate division of the destroyers. Since August, - chief of staff of the MSCM.

In the year he graduated from improving the highest commanding staff at the Naval Academy. From December to March, he was on a government business trip in the Far East. Since the March of the year, he was appointed senior teacher of the Department of Strategy and Operational Art of the K. Naval Academy in August, but in August he was removed from his post for the death of the B-3 submarine during the exercises.

He was again sent to the K. Voroshilov Naval Academy, where he was a teacher, then the senior leader of the team faculty. Since January of the year - again the chief of staff of the Baltic Fleet. Since August, the commander of the Baltic Fleet.

In the year he defended the thesis “The Operation of the Japanese against Tsindao in the year, a candidate of naval sciences was approved to a scientific extent. In the year approved in the rank of associate professor. From January to April of the year - Deputy People's Commissioner of the USSR Navy and at the same time part -time in June - September, he was the head of the K.

Naval Academy from the year. In February - May, at the head of a special group, he was on a government business trip in the United States of America in order to study the shipbuilding industry. In the year, he was negotiating with the governments of Estonia and Latvia on the rental of ports of these countries to base ships of the Baltic Fleet of the USSR. He participated in the Soviet-Finnish war, providing assistance to the commander of the Baltic Fleet and responsible for the interaction of the fleet with the ground forces.

From October to June - Head of the Main Naval Staff of the Navy. He was heading to the front many times. In the summer and autumn of the year, he coordinated the fighting of the Baltic Fleet, the Ladoga and Miracle military flotillas with the ground forces. At the end of the year, he participated in the preparation of the Kerch-Feodosia landing operation.

In December, he was on a business trip in the Far East, checking the readiness of the fleet to repel Japan's possible attack.Since April - Deputy Commander -in -Chief of the North Caucasus Office and the North Caucasus Front, since August - deputy commander and member of the Military Council of the Transcaucasian Front. At these posts, he coordinated the actions of the Black Sea Fleet and the Ground Forces during the defense of Sevastopol and in the battle for the Caucasus.

Kaganovich and front commander I. Tyulenev, was fired by a German plane. At the same time, Isakov was seriously injured. It was possible to deliver to the hospital hospital only after 2 days, when Gangrene had already begun, he was an amputation of his left leg and he remained disabled, but after a long treatment in May he continued the service in the fleet.

Dr. A. Myasnikov left a description of his injury and treatment. In the year he was a member of the Government Commission for the preparation of the conditions of the surrender of Germany. According to legend, I. Stalin called him in the year and said that there was an opinion to appoint him the chief of the Main Naval Staff, who was renamed the main headquarters of the Navy that year.

Isakov replied: "Comrade Stalin, I must report that I have a serious drawback: one leg is amputated." Nothing, worked. You only have no legs - it's not scary, ”Stalin concluded. In the year he was awarded the title of "Professor of Strategy and Operational Art." Since May - retired for health reasons. From October to December, he worked as Deputy Minister of the Navy of the USSR - chairman of the Technical Council of the Ministry.

Admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union on March 3. In February, he was restored in military service and appointed to be for special assignments under the Minister of Defense of the USSR. Since the end of the X, he has been engaged in scientific and public work. In the years - the responsible editor of the fundamental three -volume edition of the Sea Atlas, for the work on which he was awarded the Stalin Prize.

The author of a series of scientific papers in the field of geography, studying the World Ocean and Military History, his first article was published in the magazine "Sea Collection" back in the year. Military-historical consultant of the restoration of the panorama of the Panorama "Defense of Sevastopol". Member of the editorial board of the magazine "Oceanology" Author of historical and fiction writings.

His assets are more than scientific and publications. He was the chief consultant of the artistic and historical films “Admiral Ushakov” and “The ships of the storm of bastions” as a professor I. as a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated May 7 “For the skillful leadership of the troops, courage, courage and heroism manifested in the fight against German-fascist invaders, and in the exemption of the mortality of the Soviet people in the Great Watering Modelic The war "to the admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union Isakov Ivan Stepanovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

He was a member of the Presidium of the Soviet Committee of War Veterans, a member of the Committee on the award of Stalinist awards in the field of science and invention, died on October 11 in Moscow. His name was assigned to the underwater mountain in the Pacific Ocean, which was opened by the Soviet oceanographers. The name of the admiral named the reservoir in the Lugansk region on the Belaya River.

The name of the admiral named the large anti -submarine ship "Admiral Isakov" in the ranks in years. The monument to Ivan Isakov was erected in Yerevan Armenia in the area of ​​the village of Gorny, Tuapsinsky district of the Krasnodar Territory, at the place of the wound of I. Isakov in the year, a monument to Admiral Isakov and military sailors - participants in the Great Patriotic War was opened in the year.