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Early life
Ivan Bagramyan was born in Yelisavetpol (modern Ganja, Azerbaijan) to Armenian parents who were from the village of Chardakhlu, then a part of the Russian Empire. Chardakhlu was one of the largest Armenian settlements in the South Caucasus populated almost entirely by migrants from the village of Maghavuz in Nagorno Karabakh who continued to maintain their connections with their ancestral land (Bagramyan's paternal grandfather, however, came from the village of Koti in northeastern Armenia). Hamazasp Babadzhanian, a fellow Armenian who was to become the chief marshal of the Soviet armored troops, was also born in Chardakhlu. While Bagramyan's father, Khachatur, went to work all day at the railway station in Yelisavetpol, his mother, Mariam, stayed at home to take care of her seven children. Because his parents could not afford to send him to the local gymnasium, they decided to enroll him at a recently opened two-year school in Yelisavetpol.Graduating in 1912, Bagramyan, whom everyone affectionately called Vanya, followed his father and his brothers in a path in rail work, attending the three-year railway technical institute located in Tiflis. He graduated with honors and was slated to become a railway engineer within a few years when events in the First World War changed his life.
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