Background
Ivan Platonovich was born on the 20 of December 1916 in village Karyzh Rylsky district, Kursk province.
Ivan Platonovich was born on the 20 of December 1916 in village Karyzh Rylsky district, Kursk province.
Ivan Platonovich graduated from the Rylsky Agricultural Technical School in 1938, the Agronomy Department of the Voronezh Agricultural Institute in 1942.
Since 1938, Ivan Platonovich was the technician of the Ivankov experimental-selection station in the Akhtyrsky district of the Kharkov region. Since 1941 he held the post of the soil scientist of the expedition to survey the soil in the Novosibirsk region and the Altai Territory. Since 1942 he was the senior agronomist of the Bityug-Matryona machine-and-tractor station in the Shchuchy region. Ivan Platonovich is the Member of the Great Patriotic War. Since 1943, he was the cadet of the Kiev Tank Technical School. Since 1944, the deputy company commander for the technical part of the 10th Guards Tank Corps. Then since 1946, he was in a post as the chief agronomist, acting director of Lgov beet-sovkhoz in Kursk region. Since 1949 - head of the agricultural department of the Akhtyr District Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of the Ukrainian SSR. Since 1951, the director of the state farm Petrovsky in the Dobrinsky district of the Voronezh region (since 1954 in the Lipetsk region). Since 1963 VOLOVCHENKO Ivan Platonovich was the Minister of Agriculture of the USSR. Since 1965, he was the First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the USSR. Since 1972, the Minister of State Farms of the RSFSR. Since 1975, Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the USSR. From 1977 to 1983, he was the attaché for agriculture of the USSR Embassy in the German Democratic Republic. Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR V, VI, VIII, IX-the convocations.