Background
Ivan Prokofievich Taradin was born on June 17, 1890, in Markivka, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.
local historian medical historian
Ivan Prokofievich Taradin was born on June 17, 1890, in Markivka, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.
Ivan Prokofievich graduated from Starobielsk gymnasium (1910) and Petrograd Psychoneurological Institute (now the Saint Petersburg Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute) (1917).
Ivan Prokofievich was a doctor in the village of Tantsyrei in Novokhopersk district (1920), head of Novokhopersk District Health Department (1920-1921). He was head of the Maternity and Infancy Sub-department (1921-1922), deputy (1922-1923), head (1923-25) of the Voronezh Provincial Health Department.
Ivan Prokofievich was an associate professor of the department of Dialectical Materialism of the Medical Faculty of Voronezh State University (since 1926). He was head of the department of Dialectical and Historical Materialism (since 1931), the department of Marxism-Leninism (since 1938) of Voronezh State Medical Institute. He participated in the work of the provincial local history society and the society of Marxist historians.
Author of books: Materials on the History of Medicine in Voronezh Region of the XVII, XVIII and early XIX centuries (Voronezh, 1925), Sloboda Rovenki (Voronezh, 1926), Reactionary Theories and Decayed Liberalism in Medicine (Voronezh, 1927), Golden Bottom: Economy, History, Culture, and Life of the (Novochigolsky) District of the Central Chernozem Region (Voronezh, 1928), Class Struggle in Medicine (Voronezh, 1932), and others.
Ivan Prokofievich was a person devoted to his work. He appreciated such a quality as consciousness in people.
Ivan Prokofievich was married, had a daughter and a son.