Background
He was born on July 31 (August 13) in 1909 in the village Ganevichi now Logoisk district of the Minsk region in a peasant family.
He was born on July 31 (August 13) in 1909 in the village Ganevichi now Logoisk district of the Minsk region in a peasant family.
In 1934 Ivan studied at Higher Communist Agricultural School.
From 1948 he studied at Higher Party School.
Since 1934 Inav became the chairman of the village council, deputy director, director of the Chapaev MTS (Osveisky district of the Vitebsk region.
In 1931-1932 he was recruited in the Red Army.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was evacuated to the Soviet rear, and in November 1941 sent to the occupied territory to organize a guerrilla movement in the Osveya district of the Vitebsk region.
In April 1942, Ivan Zakharov organized and led a partisan detachment, transformed in July 1942 into a partisan brigade named after M.V. Frunze. Simultaneously, from June 1942 to December 1943, I.K. Zakharov was the first secretary of the Oswey Underground Committee of the Communist Party.
The brigade under the command of I.K. Zakharov inflicted considerable damage on the German invaders, destroying tanks and armored vehicles, exploding bridges and trains with the enemy's manpower and combat equipment.
After the expulsion of the invaders from the territory of Soviet Belarus, Colonel Zakharov I.K. - in reserve.
In 1944-1946, the former partisan brigade commander worked as the secretary of the Drissen district committee of the Communist Party.
In 1948-1952 he was the secretary of the Dokshitsy District Committee of the Communist Party, Vitebsk region of the BSSR.
In 1953-1963, the chairman of the Belarusian Republican Committee of the Trade Union of Workers of Construction and the Industry of Building Materials.
He lived in Minsk.
He died on August 15, 1982. He was buried in Minsk on East ("Moscow") cemetery.
Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1937.