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| | Ivan Bagramian |
 | | Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramian (December 2, 1897 — September 21, 1982), Soviet military commander, was born the son of an Armenian railway worker, near Yelizavetpol (later Kirovabad, now Gyandzha in Azerbaijan), then part of the Russian Empire. |
 | | Bagramian commanded the forces which captured Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad) in April and at the end of the war he took the surrender of the German forces penned up in Latvia. |
 | | He was twice made a Hero of the Soviet Union, received seven Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, three Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of Suvorov and the Order of Kutuzov. |
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