Background
Ivan Babenko was born on October 14, 1914 in Rossosh village, Voronezh district.
Ivan Babenko was born on October 14, 1914 in Rossosh village, Voronezh district.
Ivan Stepanovich graduated from the Voronezh Theater School (1937), Higher Directing Courses (Leningrad, 1950).
Ivan Stepanovich Babenko was an actor of Voronezh regional collective farm theatre (1937-1941), Voronezh Theater of the young spectator (1941-1942). He worked as an actor and director of the Rostov Theater of the Red Army (1945-1947), Novgorod Drama Theater (1947-1952). The main director of the theaters inYoshkar-Ola (1952-1956), Novokuznetsk (1956-1959), Penza (1959-1960), Vladimir (1960-1964). Ivan Stepanovich performed roles by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Friedrich Schiller, Alexei Nikolayevich Arbuzov, Konstantin Andreevich Trenev, Sergei Vladimirovich Mikhalkov and others.
In 1966-1975, the main director of the Borisoglebsk Drama Theater, where Ivan Stepanovich performed more than 30 plays, among them: "Gypsy" by Anatoly Kalinin, "The Zykovs" by Maxim Gorky, "Hello, Krymov" Romuald Nazarov, "At the steep turn "by Vladimir Yevtushenko,"At the dawn of our youth" by Fedor Volokhov,"Our debts" by Eduard Volodarsky and others.