Vladimir Ignatyev
1920–1988 (age 68)
Biography
Vladimir Ignatyev was born in 1920 in Lipetsk and lived through the dramatic transformations of twentieth-century Russia. He died in 1988, having witnessed the entire Soviet period from its maturity through its final years.
His life spanned the most turbulent decades of Russian history. Ignatyev is remembered as a member of the generation that endured the challenges and changes of the Soviet era.