Background
Sokrat Konstantinovich Chayanov was born in 1882 in Dubovka, Volgograd, Russian Federation.
Sokrat Konstantinovich Chayanov
Timiryazev Academy Main Building
Sokrat Konstantinovich Chayanov was born in 1882 in Dubovka, Volgograd, Russian Federation.
Sokrat Konstantinovich got vocational secondary education in an agricultural school. He graduated from the Moscow Agricultural Institute (now Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy) in 1907.
Since 1907, Sokrat Konstantinovich was a zemsky agronomist in the Starobelsky district of Kharkov province, head of the Temir agricultural experimental field (Dzhurun station of the Tashkent railway). In 1907-1911, he worked as an employee of the Migration Directorate of the Main Directorate of Land Management and Agriculture. In 1911-1924, the head of the experimental field of the Voronezh provincial zemstvo "Orlovka" (since 1917 - the regional experimental station). Since 1924, Sokrat Konstantinovich was head of the experimental work department of the People's Commissariat of the RSFSR.
Since 1928, Sokrat Konstantinovich was a chairman of the Council for Hydrometeorological Services under the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR. In 1930, he was convicted in the case of the Labor Peasant Party. Since 1935, Sokrat Konstantinovich was a lecturer at the Voronezh Agricultural Institute, Ivanovo-Voznesensky, Simferopol Agricultural Institutes, Moscow Zootechnical Institute of Horse Breeding.
