He lived in the Smolensk region in the village of Krasnoznamenskoye, was drafted into the army by the Turkovsky military commissariat and received the rank of lieutenant in the Red Army from 10.1936. Zakharov Ivan Denisovich was the deputy head of a company of snipers of the 1109th rifle regiment, 330th rifle division, the western front in the battles for Yukhnovo / Smolensk region / March 5, 1942. In the attack he was seriously wounded in the spine, right elbow joint, right thigh. After the war received a disability of 2nd degree. Awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Medal "For Courage", the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree, the Medal for Military Merit.