Иван Степанович Жаворонков
1920–1962 (age 42)
Biography
Иван Степанович Жаворонков was born in 1920 in Khakassia, a region in southern Siberia. He came of age during World War II and participated in the post-war reconstruction and development of Soviet society, living through the Cold War period as an adult.
Жаворонков's life was rooted in the Siberian landscape of Khakassia, where he witnessed the industrialization and modernization efforts of the Soviet state. He passed away in 1962, having lived through the most turbulent and transformative decades of the 20th century.