Ivan Bagramyan

Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan , also known as Hovhannes Khachaturi Baghramyan Russian , was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union of Armenian origin. During World War II, Bagramyan was the first nonSlavic military officer to become a commander of a Front. He was among several Armenians in the Soviet Army who held the highest proportion of highranking officers in the Soviet military during the war.

Ivan Bagramyan was born to Armenian parents in the village of Chardakhlu, near Yelizavetpol , then a part of the Russian Empire. Hamazasp Babadzhanian, a fellow Armenian who was to become the chief marshal of the Soviet Armor corps, was born in the same village. While Bagramyans father, Khachatur, went to work all day at the railway station in Yelizavetpol, his mother, Mariam, stayed at home to take care of her seven children. Because his parents could not afford to send him to the local gymnasium, they decided to enroll him at a recently opened twoyear school in Yelizavetpol.

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