Ivan Kairov

Ivan Andreevich Kairov (Russian: Иван Андреевич Каиров; 26 December 1893 – 29 October 1978) was a Soviet statesman, educator and pedagogue who served as Russian Minister of Education from 1949 to 1956. Biography Kairov was born in to the family of a state bank official and teacher. In 1917 he graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow University and in the same year he joined the RSDLP (b). From 1925 to 1929 he headed the department of agricultural education at the Glavprofobr under the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR. From 1929 to 1948 he headed the departments of pedagogy in a number of Moscow universities. In 1930–1934 he worked as deputy director of the Scientific Research Institute of Agricultural Personnel, and from 1942 to 1950 he was editor-in-chief of the journal "Soviet Pedagogy". From 1944 he was Kairov was full member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the RSFSR, from 1944 to 1946 he was its vice-president, and from 1946 to 1967 he served as president.