Ivan Bagramyan was one of the most important military leaders of the Great Patriotic War. A master of unexpected strategic decisions, he was able to organize powerful resistance to the German onslaught in the first months of the war. His strategic decisions turned the tide of the war and saved thousands of lives of Soviet soldiers. Troops under his command liberated Belarus, the Baltics, East Prussia and Königsberg. At the front and in the rear, he always remained a true patriot of his country. He said: the memory of a feat gives birth to a desire for a feat.