Mayismekyan Voghjuyn (Soviet Salute)

Hovhannes Baghramyan born in the village of Chardakhlu (Nagorno-Karabakh) into a family of railway workers. In 1915 he volunteered for the Russian army and fought most of the WWI against the Ottoman Empire. In 1920 he joined the Red Army and took part in the civil war. In the Armenian army he participated in the 1918 battles against the Turks in Sarikamish and Kars regions, he also took part in the Heroic Battle of Sardarapat. In 1925 he graduated from the Saint Petersburg Cavalry School and in 1934 from Frunze Military Academy. From 1938 he worked as a senior lecturer at the Military Academy of the USSR Army General Staff. In 1940 he became head of operations of the Kiev special military district. In 1954 he was appointed Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Defense and in 1955 Deputy Defense Minister of the USSR and received the title of Marshall of the Soviet Union. Hovhannes Baghramyan was awarded two Orders of the Hero of the Soviet Union, Orders of Lenin and Order of the October Revolution, three Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of Suvorov and the Order of Kutuzov. He is buried in Moscow at the Kremlin Wall Pantheon.