Background
Ivan was born in 1896 in Solonovsky farm of Tsaritsynsky district of Saratov province, Rusian Federation.
economist professor teacher agricultural scientist
Ivan was born in 1896 in Solonovsky farm of Tsaritsynsky district of Saratov province, Rusian Federation.
He graduated from the agronomical (1923) and economics (1924) faculties of the Moscow Agricultural Academy named after K.A. Timiryazev.
Since 1923 he was a teacher in the Moscow Agricultural Academy named after K.A. Timiryazev. In 1929-1930 he was the rector of the Voronezh agricultural Institute. Since 1931 he worked at universities in Moscow, he was the head of agricultural universities, a member of the Board of the people's Commissariat of agriculture of the USSR. Since 1946 Professor, Head of the Department of agriculture, Dean of the faculty of Economics (1947-1964) of the Moscow agricultural Academy named after K. A. Timiryazev.
Quotes from others about the person
The division commander K. D. Karsanov spoke with gratitude about his Commissioner:
"The headquarters of the division would not have coped with the formation, if it did not interact day by day with the political Department of the compound. If staff officers saw their aim as quickly as possible to obtain and distribute to the brigade personnel and weapons, to organize combat training, the workers of the political Department has sought from the outset to create a strong party and Komsomol groups, based on which commanders-edinomyshlenniki could cobble together units and to achieve high combat readiness. The political Department of the division was headed by Colonel I. S. guard. Kuvshinov is an old Bolshevik, a participant of the civil war, a person of high General culture, a scientist-economist by civil specialty. From the first days of the war he was the Commissar of the division of the people's militia of Zamoskvoretsky district of Moscow, later transformed into the 17th infantry division. In the hot battles of the autumn of 1941 in the fields near Moscow the division was destroying a lot of enemy manpower, then with the other compounds moved to the offensive. The Commissioner of Pitchers with the help of party organizations managed to create a high offensive impulse among the personnel."