Background
Igor Alexandrovich Skachkov was born on June 1, 1914 Nikitovka, Russian Federation.
Igor Alexandrovich Skachkov was born on June 1, 1914 Nikitovka, Russian Federation.
Igor Alexandrovich graduated from the Agronomy Department of the Voronezh Agricultural Institute (now Voronezh State Agrarian University) (1936).
In 1939-1941, assistant of the Department of General Agriculture, associate professor of the Department of Botany, assistant director of the Voronezh Agricultural Institute (now Voronezh State Agrarian University).
Since 1946, Deputy Director of the Voronezh Agricultural Institute. Since 1948, the director of the Scientific Research Institute of Agriculture of the Central Black Earth Strip named after V.V. Dokuchaev. Since 1967, the academic secretary of the Department of Agriculture and Chemicalization of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences named after V.I. Lenin. Since 1969, the head of the department for combating soil erosion and irrigation of the V.V. Central Black Earth Strip Research Institute of Agriculture Dokuchaev.