Ivan Stepanowitsch Issakov

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Ivan Stepanowitsch Issakov

Ivan Isakov ( Russian Иван Степанович Исаков , born August 10 . Jul / 22. August  1894 greg. In Adschikent , government Elisabethpol ; † 11. October 1967 in Moscow ) was a Fleet Admiral of the Soviet Union .

Life

Issakov's father, Stepan Jegorowitsch Issakjan, was an Armenian and a railway technician who had the family name Russified after Issakov. He died early, and the upbringing of the three children was now the responsibility of the mother Ida Antonwna Lauer and her brother Peter Lauer, who originally came from Derpt . Peter Lauer was an engineer who dreamed of serving in the Navy . In his library there were many books on nautical literature, which also aroused Ivan Stepanowitsch Issakov's love for seafaring.

After finishing secondary school in Tbilisi , he decided to enter the naval cadet school and went to Saint Petersburg in the summer of 1913 . However, due to his foreign and non-noble origins, he was not accepted and instead entered the Petersburg Technological Institute. With the beginning of the First World War , Issakov attended special courses in the Guard Navy from September 15, 1914, which he completed in March 1917 as an ensign at sea . He was used on the destroyer "Isjaslav" and in autumn 1917 was elected by the crew as senior officer and thus chairman of the ZENTROBALT on the boat. In 1918 Issakov took part in the so-called ice march of the Baltic Fleet , then served on the minesweeper "Riga" and began commanders' courses in mine clearance . After completing the courses in July 1919, he became a commander's assistant (watch officer) of the watch ship "Kobchik", who had participated in the defense against English torpedo boats and aircraft on ships in Kronstadt . In 1920 Issakov became the commandant of the destroyer "Dejatjelny" of the Caspian Flotilla and fought against the White Guards and British interventions in the Russian Civil War .

After serving again in the Baltic Fleet as commander of a minesweeper from June 1920 , he worked in the staff from November 1922 and later on a destroyer in the Black Sea . From 1926 he became an assistant to the chief of staff , chief of the operational department and deputy chief of staff of the naval forces of the Black Sea. In 1928 he attended the Naval War Academy . From 1930 to 1936 he worked as an assistant to the chief of an operational management department of the General Staff . In January 1937 he became chief of staff and in August the commander of the Baltic fleet. From January 1938 he was Deputy Commander of the Baltic Fleet, became a member of the CPSU in 1939 and was 1st Deputy People's Commissar of the Soviet Navy from April 1939 to April 1946 .

Second World War

From 1941 to 1943 Issakov was chief of the naval main staff. Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War he was in Leningrad and coordinated military operations of the Baltic Fleet, the Ladoga - and Peipussee - flotillas with the land forces in the defense of the city.

In October 1941, together with the commander of the Black Sea Fleet and the Transcaucasus Front , he prepared the landing operation on the Kerch peninsula .

In April 1942, Issakov became a member of the Military Council of the North Caucasus Front . He coordinated the actions of the Black Sea Fleet and Land Forces, directed supplies to Sevastopol and took part in the leadership of the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla forces in the Battle of the Caucasus . On October 4, 1942, he was seriously wounded in a bombing near Tuapse and was undergoing medical treatment from October 1942 to 1945 after a leg amputation . On May 31, 1944, he was awarded the rank of Fleet Admiral .

post war period

From 1946 to 1947 Issakov was the chief of the main staff of the Soviet Navy, from 1947 to 1950 Deputy Commander in Chief of the Soviet Navy. From March 1950 to February 1956 he was Deputy Minister of the Soviet Navy. On March 3, 1955, Issakov was awarded the highest military rank "Naval Admiral of the Soviet Union", the Marshal Star and the special certificate of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet . From February 1956 to April 1958, Issakov worked in various positions within the Ministry of Defense of the USSR . From April 1958 he was inspector general of the group of inspectors general of the Ministry of Defense. On May 7, 1965, by resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, he was awarded the " Hero of the Soviet Union " award for special military achievements and leadership , combined with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the "Golden Star" medal .

Issakov's merits lay in increasing the combat strength of the Soviet Navy, developing its operational tactics and studying the experience of the hostilities in the Great Patriotic War. He was the author of more than sixteen scientific papers. After his death, Issakov was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

Honors

The following names should honor Issakov's services to the Soviet Navy:

A memorial plaque on his house no. 5/13 on the Smolensk Ufer in Moscow commemorates the Soviet naval commander.

The Russian Navy is also planning to name a frigate of the new Admiral Gorshkov class after him.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heroes of the Land. IS Issakov , accessed on May 6, 2010 (Russian)
  2. ^ KA Zalessky, The Empire of Stalin. Biographical-Encyclopedic Lexicon. , Moscow, 2000 [1] , accessed on May 7, 2010 (Russian)
  3. ↑ a b Kars Oblast is also given as the place of birth . See: Captain WW Janbich, Fleet Admiral of the Soviet Union IS Issakov , accessed on May 6, 2010 (russ.)
personal data
SURNAME Issakov, Ivan Stepanowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Исаков, Иван Степанович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet naval admiral
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Ajikent
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1967
Place of death Moscow