Background
Ivan Yamzin was born on January 31, 1882 in Tobolsk, Tyumen', Russian Federation.
Ivan Yamzin was born on January 31, 1882 in Tobolsk, Tyumen', Russian Federation.
Ivan Yamzin graduated from the Tobolsk gymnasium (1900), the Faculty of Law of Kiev University (1910).
In 1912 - 1914 Ivan Yamzin worked in the system of the Main Directorate of Agricultural Land Management. Since 1914 he was a lecturer of legal sciences at the Voronezh Agricultural Institute (now Voronezh State Agricultural University).
Ivan Yamzin was an active supporter and organizer of the social movement for the establishment of the University in Voronezh. In the early years of Soviet power, he was a professor and the head of the educational department of the Voronezh Agricultural Institute, then a professor at the Moscow Land Surveying Institute, and a member of the State Scientific Council of the RSFSR in the late 1920s and early 1930s. At the same time, he was deputy director of the Research Institute of Land Management and Resettlement in Moscow.
Ivan Yamzin is the author of the book "The Migration Movement in Russia since the Liberation of the Peasants" (Kiev, 1912) for which Yamzin was awarded a gold medal and the Bunge prize by the faculty of law of the University of St. Vladimir (now the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv).