Ivan Bagramyan

Ivan Bagramyan

Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan (Armenian: Հովհաննես Քրիստափորի Բաղրամյան; Russian: Ива́н Христофо́рович Баграмя́н), also known as Hovhannes Khachaturi Baghramyan (Armenian: Հովհաննես Խաչատուրի (alternatively, Քրիստափորի, Kristapori) Բաղրամյան; Russian: Оване́с Хачату́рович Баграмя́н) (2 December [O.S. 20 November] 1897 – 21 September 1982), was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union of Armenian origin. During World War II, Bagramyan was the second non-Slavic military officer, after Latvian Max Reyter, to become a commander of a Front. He was among several Armenians in the Soviet Army who held the highest proportion of high-ranking officers in the Soviet military during the war.Bagramyan's experience in military planning as a chief of staff allowed him to distinguish himself as a capable commander in the early stages of the Soviet counter-offensives against Nazi Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Bagramyan has received more than 205,057 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Ivan Bagramyan is the 299th most popular military personnel (down from 290th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Azerbaijan and the most popular Azerbaijani Military Personnel.

Ivan Bagramyan is most famous for his work in the field of astrophysics. He is known for his contributions to the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation, and for his work in the field of galactic evolution.