Ivan Bagramyan

Ivan Bagramyan

Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan, also known as Hovhannes Khachaturi Baghramyan (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 261,307 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Ivan Bagramyan is the 254th most popular military personnel (up from 299th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Azerbaijan (down from 12th in 2019) 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.