Ilya Markelovich Ivanov

Background

Ivanov Ilya Markelovich was born on July 19, 1892 in Chertovitskoye village, Voronezh district. He came from a peasant family.

Education

He graduated from the parochial school at the Akatov monastery (Voronezh, 1906), as an external student passed the exam for 5 classes of the gymnasium.

Career

Ilya Markelovich Ivanov was a telegraphist of the South-Eastern Railway (1908-1915), accountant of the Statistical Division of the South-Eastern Railway (1915-1919), photographer of the Department of the South-Eastern Railway (1919-1927), the Museum of the Revolution (1928-1929), the plant named after Dzerzhinsky (since 1929).

Member of the Scientific and Photographic Society (1913). He was arrested in 1931 on the so-called case study of local historians, sentenced to 3 years of labor camps. He served time in the city of Kotlas. Upon return to Voronezh, he worked as a photographer in various institutions (Voronezh State Medical Institute, Voronezh Agricultural Institute, Voronezh Regional Museum of Local Lore, Office of the Chief Architect and other organizations).

Took part in books' illustration of Yu.I. Uspensky, N.V. Troitsky.

Photographed the funeral of Archbishop Anastasia (Dobradin, 1913), the arrival in Voronezh of Emperor Nicholas II (1914), the execution of the Bolsheviks at the Round Rows (1919). In 1963-1964 he took about 600 photographs with views of the Voronezh streets. Ivanov’s negative collection is kept in the Voronezh Regional Museum of Local Lore.

Achievements

• Ivanov’s memories "Justice does not always triumph" were published by N. V. Strebkov in the "Young Communard" (2004, August 26 - September 7).

Membership

• Ыcientific and Photographic Society

  1913