115th anniversary of Hovhannes Isakov

Aysor.am
22.08.2009, 13:41

115th anniversary of Hovhannes Isakov

Today Seyran Ohanyan, RA Minister of Defense, accompanied with the
high-ranking officers of the Armenian Armed Forces, expressed their
respect and put a wreath to the monument of Admiral Hovhannes Isakov
on the 115th anniversary of the great Armenian soldier.
Flowers were put to the monument of the Admiral, the veterans of the
Great Patriotic War and those who served in sea recalled the hero of
the USSR.
‘Today is the 115th anniversary of Admiral Hovhannes Isakov and we can
once more evidence that the Armenian nation all through its history
stood close to the military art. All this is proved by our military
men serving both in Armenia and outside’, – said S. Ohanyan,
mentioning that we had 4 Armenian martials at the Great Patriotic War.
‘Admiral Isakov was one of them. We should remember all of them, as
they were the military men who gave us their military thinking,
abilities, heroism, especially Admiral Isakov, who was also a
scientist and a writer.
`After having lost his leg in the Great Patriotic War, he went on
serving in the high ranks in the USSR’,-mentioned S. Ohanyan, adding
that Armenians should bring up the coming generations in the spirit of
suchlike people .