I. A. Benediktov

Ivan Aleksandrovich Benediktov (; 23 March 1902 – 30 July 1983) was a Soviet official who served in different posts, including People's Commissars for Agriculture, then Minister of Agriculture and Soviet ambassador to India and to Yugoslavia. He was a long-term member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

Early life and education Benediktov was born in Vichuga, Kineshma district, Kostroma Oblast, on 23 March 1902. In the period 1920-1923 he attended the Pokrovsky workers' faculty in Moscow. From 1923 to 1927 he attended the Faculty of Economics at the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy.

Career Benediktov was the as deputy chief of the collective farm system in Uzbekistan. In 1930 he became a member of the Communist Party.

He was appointed people's commissar of collective farms in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) in 1937 and Soviet commissar of agriculture in April 1938. and was in office until 1943. Benediktov's appointment as ambassador to India was announced on 15 March 1954, However, her request was not accepted, and instead, she was ordered to return to the Soviet Union, but she did not return to her native country and defected to the United States. |

Benediktov's term ended in April 1967 shortly after the defection of Svetlana Alliluyeva, and he was appointed Soviet ambassador to Yugoslavia which he held until 1971.

Personal life and death Benediktov died in Moscow on 30 July 1983 and was buried there in the Novodevichy cemetery.

Awards Benediktov was the recipient of the following: Order of Lenin (four times), Order of the October Revolution, Order of the Red Banner of Labor (twice) and Order of Friendship of Peoples.