Background
Ivan Stepanovich Toportsev was born on September 9, 1922, in Korshevo, Bobrovsky, Voronezh.
Voronezh State University
Ivan Stepanovich Toportsev was born on September 9, 1922, in Korshevo, Bobrovsky, Voronezh.
Ivan Stepanovich graduated from the Bobrov Pedagogical College (1940), the philological department of the historical and philological faculty of the Voronezh State University (1950).
Since 1954, Ivan Stepanovich was an associate professor, head of the Russian language department of the Oryol State Pedagogical Institute. He was a professor of the department of Russian-Slavic Linguistics (since 1976), dean of the Faculty of Philology (1976-1984) of Voronezh State University.