Background
Ivan Yakushkin was born on August 10, 1885 in Moscow, Russian Federation.
Ivan Yakushkin was born on August 10, 1885 in Moscow, Russian Federation.
Ivan Yakushkin graduated from the Moscow Agricultural Institute (1909).
In 1909 - 1912 Ivan Yakushkin was a district county agronomist in the Poltava Province. In 1912 - 1917, he was an assistant at the department of private agriculture at the Moscow Agricultural Institute, and at the same time a teacher at the Golitsyn Women's Agricultural Courses.
In 1917 - 1920 and 1922 - 1932 he was a professor, head of the department of private agriculture (crop production), dean of the agronomy faculty (1923 - 1930) of the Voronezh Agricultural Institute (now Voronezh State Agricultural University). In 1920-1922 Ivan Yakushkin was the head of the department of plant production, dean of the agronomy department of the Simferopol Crimean State University of Agriculture.
In 1922 Ivan Yakushkin organized and until 1930 was the director of the Ramons Experimental Breeding Station Glavsakhara. He was a member of the International Congress on Genetics and Breeding in Berlin (1927).
In 1931 Ivan Yakushkin was convicted by the collegium of the United State Political Administration of the Central Black Earth Region in the case of the Labor Peasant Party. Since 1932, he was a professor, head of the plant growing department of the Russian State Agrarian University. Ivan Yakushkin is the author of over 250 works.