Ivan S. Isakov is a prominent Soviet naval сommander, Admiral of the Fleet of the USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union (7.5.1965) and a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1958).
Ivan Stepanovich Isakov was born in the village of Adzhikend (Azerbaijan) on 22 August 1894. He finished the drift fishery courses for commanding officers of ships (1919) and the advanced management courses at the Naval Academy (1928). Beginning February 1917, he served as midshipman on the Izyaslav destroyer and in 1918 he was an assistant commander of the destroyer during the crusade of the Baltic Fleet in the Arctic Ocean.
Literary Armenia, 1969, N 8, p. 47
(Long, Long Sailing. Hero of the Soviet Homeland, Vladimir Rudny, Е., 1974)
Republic of Armenia, 1999, N182, 25 September, p.2
Literary Armenia, 1969, N 8, p. 52